In marine turtles, the physical conditions experienced by eggs during incubation affect embryonic development. In the leatherback, hatching success is known to be low in relation to other marine turtles as a result of high embryonic mortality. Moreover, the hatching success on Yalimapo in French Guiana, one major nesting beach for this species, is lower compared to other nesting sites. We asses...

Reducing small shrimps in the Gulf of Maine pink shrimp fishery with a new size-sorting grid system Pingguo He, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space and NH Sea Grant University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH. (603) 862-3154, [email protected] Vincent Balzano, F/V “North Star”, Saco, Maine, USA INTRODUCTION Since the implementation of the Nordmore Grid in the Gulf of Maine pink shri...

Nesting by three species of marine turtles persists in the Dominican Republic, despite historic threats and long-term population decline. We conducted a genetic survey of marine turtles in the Dominican Republic in order to link them with other rookeries around the Caribbean. We sequenced a 740bp fragment of the control region of the mitochondrial DNA of 92 samples from three marine turtle spec...

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are key tools for combatting the global overexploitation of endangered species. The prevailing paradigm is that MPAs are beneficial in helping to restore ecosystems to more 'natural' conditions. However, MPAs may have unintended negative effects when increasing densities of protected species exert destructive effects on their habitat. Here, we report on severe seag...

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Zoeal stages of the mud shrimp Nihonotrypaea petalura (Stimpson, 1860) (Decapoda: Axiiidea: Callianassidae) inhabiting Peter the Great Bay (Sea of Japan) is described and illustrated from the larvae reared in the laboratory individually. The development included seven zoeal stages before molting to the megalopa. At 22-23°C the first megalopa was attained 26 days after hatching. A range of the n...

Deep-water shrimps are non-conventional culinary delicacies due to the presence of essential nutrients, although they predominantly unexplored marine fishery resources. The nutritional composition deep-water shrimp species Aristeus alcocki, Heterocarpus chani, Plesionika quasigrandis, Solenocera choprai, and Metapenaeopsis andamanensis captured from Arabian Sea (southwest coast peninsular India...