Marine fisheries are highly complex and stochastic. A simulation model, therefore, is required. Simulation-based optimization utilizes the simulation model in obtaining the objective function values of a particular fishing schedule. The decision support system for fishery management will assist the government agencies and the fishing industry to use sound data and management science techniques ...

Citation: Guraslan C, Fach BA and Oguz T (2017) Understanding the Impact of Environmental Variability on Anchovy Overwintering Migration in the Black Sea and its Implications for the Fishing Industry. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:275. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00275 Understanding the Impact of Environmental Variability on Anchovy Overwintering Migration in the Black Sea and its Implications for the Fishing...

The concept of biodiversity offsets is well established as an approach to environmental management. The concept has been suggested for environmental management in fisheries, particularly in relation to the substantial numbers of non-target species--seabirds in particular--caught and killed as incidental bycatch during fishing activities. Substantial areas of fisheries are being closed to protec...

BACKGROUND To establish the causes of mortality in the British fishing industry from 1900 up to 2010, to investigate long term trends in mortality and to identify causal factors in the mortality patterns and rates. MATERIALS AND METHODS A longitudinal study, based on examinations of official death inquiry files, marine accident investigation files and reports, death registers and annual death...

This paper models fishing trawler scheduling for integrated fisheries. Fishing trawler scheduling is a well known problem in the fishery industry. The scheduling problems faced by the fishery industry are more complicated than the traditional merchant trawler scheduling problems. The factors that influence the scheduling of fishing trawlers include catch capacity, processing capacity, etc. We d...

Understanding overfishing and regulating fishing quotas is a major global challenge for the 21st Century both in terms of providing food for humankind and to preserve the oceans' ecosystems. However, fishing is a complex economic activity, affected not just by overfishing but also by such factors as pollution, technology, financial factors and more. For this reason, it is often difficult to sta...

BACKGROUND NIOSH established its Alaska Field Station in Anchorage, Alaska, in 1991, after identifying Alaska as America's highest-risk state for traumatic worker fatalities. Since then, NIOSH established comprehensive occupational injury surveillance in Alaska, and formed and facilitated interagency working groups (of state and federal agencies) and industry, labor, and professional organizati...

BACKGROUND In Southern Malawi, the fishing industry is highly gendered, with men carrying out the fishing and women processing, drying and selling the fish. Research has shown that individuals living in fishing communities in low-income countries are particularly vulnerable to HIV infection. One of the key drivers of HIV in fishing communities is transactional sex. In the fishing industry this ...

The objective of the paper is to simulate behavior of economic agents with a special emphasis on the use of the time resource in economic processes. The case studied, is brought from the fishing industry. With an aid of simulations, the study analyzes behavior of economic agents as they lead their processes through time. The paper estimates the value of time in a fishery operation, and shows th...