BACKGROUND The highly valuable red coral Corallium rubrum is listed in several Mediterranean Conventions for species protection and management since the 1980s. Yet, the lack of data about its Atlantic distribution has hindered its protection there. This culminated in the recent discovery of poaching activities harvesting tens of kg of coral per day from deep rocky reefs off SW Portugal. Red cor...

Picture credits: Close up photographs of mussels and cockles on the back cover courtesy of the Eastern Sea Fisheries Joint Committee. All other photographs, CEFAS. Introduction 1. Since 1970, previously artisanal fisheries for cockles and mussels in The Wash have been transformed by the rapid introduction of more powerful fishing gears and vessels and the modernisation of processing plant to se...

In order to obtain gear-based management instruments of shrimp trawl fishery for southern velvet in the South China Sea (SCS), size selectivity and catch efficiency four codends were tested compared. These included two mesh sizes, 30 35 mm, shapes, T0 (diamond-mesh) T90 (diamond-mesh turned by 90°), respectively. Our results demonstrated that increasing mesh-sizes or/and applying would statisti...

In Côte d'Ivoire, fishing in Grand-Lahou locality provides 20% of national artisanal catches. From August 2016 to February 2017, units and the ichthyological composition their gears were characterised on Lahou-Kpanda site. One unit using beach seine, eleven purse seines seven gillnets involved. Twenty-two fish species have been identified. Twenty-one them caught by seines, seine six gillnet...

Fishing gears have negative impacts on seafood quality, especially on fish in the mixed trawl fishery targeting Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus). In this fishery, which is worth about €80 millions in Denmark alone, the quality of fish can be significantly improved by simple gear changes. A trawl codend divided into an upper and lower codend was designed to separate fish from Norway lobster ...

In the multi-gear coastal fleet in Algarve (South Portugal), fishers own licenses for various fishing gears. However, they generally do not use all these licenses, and therefore, it is difficult to estimate impacts this has on local environment. study, two types of questionnaires were used directed from during interviews carried out between November 2019 July 2021 with objective validate métier...

The establishment of marine protected areas (MPAs) by the local or national government is a popular conservation tool in Philippines. Participation among community members an important consideration for success its implementation. While remarkable involvement observed during planning and MPAs, sustaining this voluntary participation challenge implementation stage. To ensure sustainability parti...

Twenty-three second graders and 20 fifth graders were interviewed about how gears move on a gearboard and work in commonplace machines. Questions focused on transmission of motion; direction, plane, and speed of turning; and mechanical advantage. Several children believed that meshed gears turn in the same direction and at the same speed. Many second graders provided very incomplete explanation...