On January 1, 2020, the United States (U.S.) government implemented new regulations increasing total closed areas to bottom trawl fishing by 363,513 km 2 , including a net increase of 44,498 in essential fish habitat conservation at fishable depths (<1,280 m) along West Coast continental shelf and upper slope. At same time, reopened certain grounds originally established rebuild overfish...

A brief history of demersal trawling in Southeast Asia (here: Philippines, Thailand Malaysia, and Indonesia) is given. It is argued that this fishery, through its overwhelming emphasis on penaeid shrimps, imported the concept of "trash fish," which had been previously alien in this region, and which still generates considerable unease. In the long term, and for reasons not necessarily related t...

There are several methods for mining communities on the Web using hyperlinks. One of the well-known ones is a max-flow based method proposed by Flake et al. The method adopts a page-oriented framework, that is, it uses a page on the Web as a unit of information, like other methods including HITS and trawling. Recently, Asano et al. built a site-oriented framework which uses a site as a unit of ...

Four van Veen grab replicates where collected to sample macrofauna (organism retained on a 500 micron mesh sieve) at four stations in the Gulf of Nicoya, during October 24, 1997, January 16 and April 30, 1998. This information was used to search for any effects of trawling on the benthic fauna. Two stations where located in a trawled area, and two stations where in a protected area. Diversity (...

We assessed the behavioral flexibility of the trawling long-legged bat, Macrophyllum macrophyllum (Phyllostomidae) in flight cage experiments by exposing it to prey suspended from nylon threads in the air and to food placed onto the water surface at varying distances to clutter-producing background (water plants). The bat revealed flexibility in foraging mode and caught prey in the air (aerial ...

Demersal fish fauna of the Sea Marmara, Turkey was determined by bottom trawl surveys between March 2017-December 2018 at 34 stations with monthly samplings. During study, a total 61 teleost and 12 cartilaginous species belonging to 42 families were sampled. The target, bycatch discard rates CPUE as 13.40%, 69.64% 16.95%, respectively. In total, 53.9% stemmed from Trachurus trachurus. Mustelus ...