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Fighting Over Fish: How Climate Change Could Influence Violent Conflict
(2013-07-25)Despite rising concerns in policy circles, the academic community has yet to reach a consensus on the implications of climate change for possible outbreaks of violent conflict. Some quantitative and qualitative studies ... -
Finding Common Ground: Regional Collaboration for Marine Resource Management in the Coral Triangle Initiative
The Coral Triangle is an area with high marine biodiversity that encompasses four Asian (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Timor Leste) and two Melanesian (Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea) countries. The Coral ... -
Finding Common Ground: Regional Collaboration for Marine Resource Management in the Coral Triangle Initiative
The Coral Triangle is an area with high marine biodiversity that encompasses four Asian (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Timor Leste) and two Melanesian (Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea) countries. The Coral ... -
Finding the Practical Value of Environmental DNA Data: A Case Study with Invasive European Green Crab
Advances in environmental DNA (eDNA) applications hold promise for revolutionizing environmental monitoring and management, providing increased detection sensitivity at reduced cost and survey effort. However, implementation ... -
Fish Assemblage Structure Before and After a Marine Heatwave in West Hawai'i
Coral reefs are subject to marine heatwaves caused by human-induced climate change. Long-term thermal stress can negatively affect corals and the associated marine organisms that use these areas as critical habitat. In ... -
Fisheries from the Bench or Business as Usual? The National Marine Fisheries Service and Federal Courts since 2000
Around the turn of the 21st century, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) found itself embroiled in an unprecedented amount of litigation over its management of the nation's fisheries. Not only was NMFS finding ... -
Fishery Dependent Communities in Coastal Ghana: Nutritional Security, Gender, and Resilience
Fisheries are increasingly being considered in dialogues about nutritional security, amid concern for stresses on fisheries production. The people of coastal Ghana, whose livelihood and culture are based on fishing, present ... -
Fishing for market solutions: Measuring the global performance of fishery improvement projects
Over the last decade, fishery improvement projects (FIPs) have proliferated across the globe as a credible, step-wise approach to improving environmental sustainability within a fishery. However, to date, only one assessment ... -
Fishing for recognition: Understanding the use of NGO guidelines in fishery improvement projects
This study examines the use of non-governmental organization (NGO) guidelines in a fishery improvement project (FIP) in the Gulf of Mexico reef fish fishery. FIPs recently emerged as a way to assist fisheries in reaching ... -
Fishing participation choice during a climate shock: A case study of the 2015/16 California Dungeness crab fishery delay
Consistent with other individuals dependent on natural resources, fishers face high income variability, as shifts in fishing returns are driven by ecological and climatic shocks, management decisions, and market demand. ... -
Framing Arctic Renewable Energy: A Multi-Stakeholder Analysis
This study examines how various actors frame the shift from oil/gas-based energy to renewable energy for the Arctic regions of the United States and Canada, in light of recent federal policy initiatives, and how domestic ... -
A Fresh Perspective for Marine Fisheries: Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management in the Laurentian Great Lakes
Both freshwater and saltwater fisheries are complex socio-ecological systems that are integral to the lives of those who live in them. However, there is little effort or attention being paid to the differences and similarities ... -
From Introduced to Invasive and Iconic: An aquaculture oyster (Crassostrea gigas) and social-ecological resilience in Puget Sound
(2013-07-25)The resilience framework is increasingly used to understand the dynamics of sustainability in coupled social and ecological systems. Resilient ecological systems exhibit high levels of diversity, including species and ... -
Gender dimensions of community-based management of marine protected areas in Siquijor, Philippines
(2013-07-25)This case study focuses on the gender dimensions of the management of community-based Marine Protected Areas (CB-MPAs) in Siquijor, Philippines. The objective of this study is to understand the gender dimensions of CB-MPAs ... -
Gender Mainstreaming and Fisheries in USAID: Barriers and Policy Recommendations
Since the United Nations First World Conference on Women in 1985, the advancement of women’s rights in international development has become increasingly recognized as critical for sustainable development. In order to address ... -
Geostatistical Analyses of Interactions between Minke Whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) and Whale-Watching Boats in Skjalfandi Bay, Northeast Iceland
The Icelandic whale-watching industry has experienced rapid growth since its inception in 1991, and today represents the fastest growing economic activity of the country. Skjalfandi Bay in Northeast Iceland has become the ... -
Great Risk, Great Reward: The Global Extent and Nature of Compressed-Air Dive Fisheries
Dive fishing is the practice of harvesting marine or aquatic species through the use of an Underwater Breathing Apparatus (UBA), such as SCUBA or hookah. Prior to this study, dive fishing has not been addressed as a distinct ... -
Grounded Constellations: Networks of Nourishment and Support Amongst Indigenous Resurgent Movements
Weaving together the Anishinaabeodziiwin gathered through the stories of my ancestors, the teachings of the night sky, my own journey in each of the four directions, lessons learned from my diasporic and Native Californian ... -
Health Risks and Gastronomic Rewards of Oyster Consumption in Washington State: the Raw Facts
Raw oyster consumption patterns and trends in Washington are assessed to inform the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) vibriosis risk assessment models. Vibrio parahaemolyticus is the primary naturally-occurring ... -
"The heartbeat of our people": How blueback sockeye salmon influences tribal well-being
(2013-07-25)Natural resource management decisions are often made primarily based on economic or ecological data. While this can be an effective way to make some natural resources decisions, it is not the most holistic consideration ...