The average F from 2006 through 2008 was 1.00, almost two times as high as the MFMT. The fishing mortality of optimal yield (FOY) was determined at 75 % of the MFMT (e.g., 0.39). Thus, recent fishing mortality was much higher than the FOY and the MFMT, suggesting that overfishing ...
Triplets also have at least two distinct IPIs, where one of them may be repeated two or more times. The distribution and population structure of fin whales appears to be more complex than previously thought. Their migration patterns do not conform to the generally posited baleen whale seasonal...
"Quite frankly, a typical successful contractor will try to interface as much as they can with the people who are providing the money or who are asking the question and trying to pick your brain as well." "It certainly happens that there are times when what the contractor provides you ...
a previously unstudied period. Resident killer whales were acoustically present in Montague Strait for up to twelve hours per day in winter months, and daily acoustic residency times were greater during winter than summer months. In Montague Strait, high acoustic...
$${\%PSIRI}_{i }= \frac{{\%FO}_{i} \times ({\%PN}_{i}+ {\%PW}_{i})}{2}$$ (1) For both months, a taxon was classified as a prey group if the PSIRI was greater than 3.5% of all stomachs sampled for that month across all years. Species that did not meet these cri...
Normally found on deep water offshore wrecks, this species of Jack is not encountered as often as Amberjacks. The Almaco Jack feeds at all times of the day and night on bait fish and small Squid. The firm white flesh is excellent, similar to Tuna....
The GDP of this region increased from 8.3 billion Yuan (RMB) to 412.1 trillion Yuan (RMB) between 1985 and 2010, which is a huge growth of 49.37 times the initial GDP. With the sustainable growth of population and the increasing development of the economy, the GDP, the population density,...
without agitation. Sulfate reduction activity was monitored by measuring the accumulation of sulfide using the methylene blue method75. When the sulfide concentration reached ~8 mM, enrichment cultures were successively transferred five times into fresh medium (20% v/v) to obtain sediment-free ...
We engaged in cooperative research with fishers and stakeholders to characterize the fine-scale, spatio-temporal characteristics of spawning behavior in an aggregating marine fish (Cynoscion othonopterus: Sciaenidae) and coincident activities of its comm
Although Risso’s dolphin and the sperm whale were observed while feeding fewer than 10 times, they showed the highest median depths of 820 m (IR = 365) and 600 m (IR = 490), respectively. Figure 2. (a) Spatial distribution of the sightings of feeding activity. (b) Boxplot of ...