Survey data on the choice of canned fish were analyzed through stepwise logistic regression. Those who lived in northern Taiwan, those who paid more attention to food taste, those who preferred to eat fish, those who liked to eat sour food, those who liked to eat bitter gourds, those employed in manual labor, and those who paid more attention to food content and ingredient had higher odds of ea...

The levels of total mercury and methyl mercury were measured in 40 tuna cans prepared from Persian Gulf tuna, in Tehran, Iran during 2010. The total mercury and methyl mercury concentrations were determined with a GBC 906 AA flame atomic absorption spectrometer (FAAS) and a Thermo gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer (GC-MS), respectively. The results showed that the means of total mercury and m...

This study was to utilize the waste from canned tuna processing (tuna precooking juice) for producing dried tuna flavor powder. Tuna precooking juice was centrifuged and concentrated to 15% total soluble solid (TSS). Maltodextrin (DE 9) was added to increase the TSS of tuna precooking concentrate to 20, 22, 24 and 26%, then dried by spray dryer at 180oC inlet air temperature. The compositions a...

Large reductions in the abundance of exploited land predators have led to significant range contractions for those species. This pattern can be formalized as the range-abundance relationship, a general macroecological pattern that has important implications for the conservation of threatened species. Here we ask whether similar responses may have occurred in highly mobile pelagic predators, spe...

We formulate and simulation-test a spatial surplus production model that provides a basis with which to undertake multispecies, multi-area, stock assessment. Movement between areas is parameterized using a simple gravity model that includes a "residency" parameter that determines the degree of stock mixing among areas. The model is deliberately simple in order to (1) accommodate nontarget speci...

The North Atlantic is a productive marine region which has supported important commercial fisheries for centuries. Many of these fisheries have exploited the pelagic species, including herring, blue whiting and tuna. Here we present data on the distribution of herring and blue whiting based on the international ecosystem survey in the Nordic Seas (IESNS), the bottom trawl survey in the Bay of B...

The influence of multiple anchored fish aggregating devices (FADs) on the spatial behavior of yellowfin (Thunnus albacares) and bigeye tuna (T. obesus) was investigated by equipping all thirteen FADs surrounding the island of Oahu (HI, USA) with automated sonic receivers (‘‘listening stations’’) and intra-peritoneally implanting individually coded acoustic transmitters in 45 yellowfin and 12 bi...