the quality of hg contaminated sediments in artisanal gold mining areas of tanzania have to date only been assessed through bulk chemical analysis. however, measurement of contaminant levels alone has a limited ability to predict adverse effects on living resources. in this study we investigated the possible effects of hg contaminated sediments from the river mabubi which drains the artisanal g...

MASTS Annual Science Meeting Title: Additional insight on potential reallocation scenarios for artisanal fisheries from a spatialBayesian belief network

This manuscript offers a comprehensive review about the bacterial amino acid decarboxylase activity and biogenic amines content of an artisanal cheese produced in Italy, named as Pecorino cheese. It is highlighted the importance of controlling primary production of raw milk, as well as cheese-making process to avoid the release of free amino-acids and viability of microorganisms possessing amin...

BACKGROUND This paper discusses the results of ethno-ornithological research conducted on the local ecological knowledge (LEK) of artisanal fishers in northeast Brazil between August 2013 and October 2014. METHODS The present study analyzed the LEK of 240 artisanal fishermen in relation to Nearctic shorebirds and the factors that may be affecting their populations. We examined whether differe...

The Socotra Archipelago (Yemen), a group of four islands off the north-eastern tip Africa in western Indian Ocean, has population that relies heavily on small-scale fishing for livelihoods and food security. However, reporting fisheries catches by Yemen consistently been incomplete, with artisanal (small-scale, commercial) underreported non-commercial subsistence recreational not reported at al...

This paper reports the results of a 15-year trawl ban imposed in 1990 Gulf Castellammare (GCAST: NW Sicily, central Mediterranean Sea) and its effects on biomass size structure demersal finfish shellfish proportion different commercial categories fish. Data were collected by experimental surveys conducted GCAST two trawled areas before after 1990. The total assemblage number selected species wa...

In this letter, we propose a Deep Learning (DL) based approach which exploits multispectral Sentinel-2 open-source data and small-size inventory to map artisanal small-scale mines (ASM). The study area is in central northern Burkina Faso (Africa) characterized by semi-desert environment that makes mapping challenging. sub-Saharan Africa, mining represents source of subsistence for significant n...

Summary Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is the world's largest source of anthropogenic mercury emissions releases. These have devastating consequences for miners' health environment. Most >20 million ASGM miners worldwide are not officially recognized, registered, regulated, or protected by state laws. Formalization—the process organizing, registering, reforming ASGM—is ma...