scholarly journals Ground-truthing the ground-truth: reply to Garibaldi et al.'s comment on “Managing fisheries from space: Google Earth improves estimates of distant fish catches”

2014 ◽  
Vol 71 (7) ◽  
pp. 1927-1931 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalal Al-Abdulrazzak ◽  
Daniel Pauly
Keyword(s):  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fishing Gear ◽  
Marine Science ◽  
Anchoring System ◽  
Ground Truthing ◽  
The Persian Gulf

There has been a growing interest in the potential of Google Earth for scientific inquiries, and our previous paper (Al-Abdulrazzak and Pauly, 2014. Managing fisheries from space: Google Earth improves estimates of distant fish catches. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 71: 450–454) on weirs and their catch in the Persian Gulf is a case in point. Garibaldi et al. (2014. Comment on: “Managing fisheries from space: Google Earth improves estimates of distant fish catchs” by Al-Abdulrazzak and Pauly. ICES Journal of Marine Science), while agreeing in principle with using Google Earth for fisheries-related purposes, criticized the assumptions, data, methodology, and results of this paper. Here, we refute their criticisms, notably by showing that the “derelict weirs” that they thought they had “ground-truthed” are not weirs at all, but another type of fishing gear in one case, and debris from a boat anchoring system in the other. We develop the theme that ground-truthing requires local knowledge, and provide recommendations for using Google Earth images in fisheries management.

Taming the Hyperpower: The 1990s

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard F. Kuisel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Downward Spiral ◽  
The Persian Gulf

This chapter discusses the confluence of events that shaped relations between France and the United States in the 1990s. These include the war in the Persian Gulf, which had barely subsided when a downward spiral into ethnic strife seized the inhabitants of Yugoslavia. At the same time the United States and France engaged in diplomatic brinkmanship over trade and waged a contest over reform of the Atlantic Alliance. Transatlantic sparring often occurred on many fronts and one struggle tended to complicate the other. The discussion in this chapter will be thematic rather than chronological, beginning with war, and then security, followed by trade, the “indispensable nation,” and more war, and concluding with the topic of the hyperpower.

scholarly journals Remote Sensing the Archaeological Traces of Boat Movement in the Marshes of Southern Mesopotamia

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 2474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaafar Jotheri ◽  
Michelle de Gruchy ◽  
Rola Almaliki ◽  
Malath Feadha
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Human Movement ◽  
Trace Fossils ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Morphological Evidence ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
Southern Iraq

This study presents the results of the first remote sensing survey of hollow ways in Southern Mesopotamia between Baghdad and the Persian Gulf, primarily using the imagery in Google Earth. For archaeologists, hollow ways are important trace fossils of past human movement that inform about how people travelled in the past and what considerations were important to them as they moved through the landscape. In this study, remotely sensed hollow ways were ground-truthed and dated by association with both palaeochannels and known archaeological sites. Contextual and morphological evidence of the hollow ways indicate that they are likely the archaeological manifestation of ethnographically attested “water channels” formed through the dense reeds of marshlands in southern Iraq, not formed by traction overland like other known hollow ways. The map itself documents the first known hollow ways preserved underwater and one of the best-preserved landscapes of past human movement in the Near East.

scholarly journals From Scarcity to Abundance: The New Geopolitics of Energy

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
Michael Klare
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Hydraulic Fracturing ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Shale Formations ◽  
Oil And Natural Gas ◽  
The Persian Gulf

For most of the Petroleum Age, and even as recently as ten years ago, the politics of energy were largely governed by perceptions of scarcity: the assumption that global supplies of most primary fuels were finite and would eventually prove insufficient to satisfy rising worldwide demand, resulting in intense competition over what remained.  The enduring prevalence of this view led many oil-importing nations to establish close ties with their major foreign suppliers and to employ force on occasion to ensure the safety of overseas supply lines.  This outlook guided American foreign policy for over half a century, resulting in several U.S. interventions in the Persian Gulf area.  Recently, however, a combination of technological and political considerations – the introduction of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) to extract oil and natural gas from previously inaccessible shale formations on one hand and rising concern over climate change on the other – has largely extinguished the perception of scarcity, introducing entirely new dynamics into the geopolitics of energy.

The Inscription from Kythera

1939 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernst F. Weidner ◽  
Helen Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Persian Gulf ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Third ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Western Asia ◽  
Correct Reading ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
Third Line ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
Shed Light

The inscription from Kythera (Fig. 1) to which Miss Thomas drew attention in the last part of the JHS (lviii, p. 256), is an early Babylonian cuneiform inscription which has already been the object of considerable study on the part of Assyriologists. It was first discussed by Hugo Winckler (SB Preuss. Akad. Wiss. 1897, 262–4) as part of an article by Ulrich Kohler (Ueber Probleme der gr. Vorzeit, l.e., 258–274). Winckler successfully deciphered lines 4 and 5, and established the correct reading of some of the signs in the first lines. He thought the inscription dated between 1500 and 1200 b.c., and thus, as Köhler added, from the finest period of Mycenean culture. Köhler (p. 265) further said that the cuneiform tablet might have been brought to Kythera at that time with other oriental bric-á-brac, like the Egyptian scarabs found in Rhodes and in the plain of Argos.Many years later the study of this inscription was again taken up by Eckhard Unger (Reallexikon der Vorgeschichte xiii (1929) p. 313, pl. 58A), who went beyond Winckler and succeeded in reading the third line as well. On the other hand, his deciphering of the first two lines, his restoration of the third and fourth, his assertions on its place of origin (according to him Tilmun in the region of the Persian Gulf), and the date he gives it are not proof against criticism. For this, however, he is hardly to blame, since it is only very recently that the American excavations in Western Asia have shed light upon the author of this inscription.

Family in the Arabian Peninsula

Hawwa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 5-25
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Wanucha
Keyword(s):  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Maintenance ◽  
Arab States ◽  
Arab Societies ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
Internal Pressures ◽  
Interesting Area ◽  
Area Of Study

AbstractThough in many ways the demographics and other characteristics of the Arab states of the Persian Gulf follow the proscribed pathways to modernity, the Arab societies in the region have not completely abandoned their traditional characteristics in the wake of modernization and globalization forces. These societies have found a way to consolidate the external and internal pressures and exist somewhere on a four-way spectrum between “modern traditionalism” and “traditional modernism” on one axis, and between “global traditionalism” and “traditionalized globalization” on the other. The Arab societies of the Persian Gulf fit neither into the “cultural maintenance” nor “modernization” category, but exist and thrive in some space in between, making it an interesting area of study in need of more research.

A ‘Persian Gulf’ Seal from Lothal

Antiquity ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 37 (146) ◽  
pp. 96-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. R. Rao
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
The Other ◽  
Indus Civilization ◽  
The West ◽  
West Coast Of India ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Gulf Islands ◽  
Trade Route ◽  
The Persian Gulf

Lothal is an important harbour-town of the Indus Civilization at the head of the Gulf of Cambay on the west coast of India (FIG. 1). During the recent excavations there, a circular steatite seal has been found which is neither wholly Indian nor Sumerian in workmanship (PL. IX). On the other hand, it closely resembles the seals from the Persian Gulf islands found by the Danish expedition led by Professor Glob and Dr Bibby. Sir Mortimer Wheeler has named them 'Persian Gulf' seals which, according to him, 'appear to have been made at the various entrepôts (such as Bahrain itself) of a cosmopolitan Persian Gulf trade of the kind which has been analyzed by A. L. Oppenheim from Larsa tablets' (note I). Commenting on these seals, the late Col. D. H. Gordon wrote: 'The problem of Bahrain is a very interesting and important one, and it is possible that these seals may help to solve it. Some day such seals may come to light in India, but so far they have not; Bahrain may have been Dilmun and it was almost certainly an entrepôt on the trade route to India, and so it is possible that seals of this kind were carried on to the Indus or to ports in Kathiawad and will some day be found in those localities, though this will not necessarily make them Indian or even of Indian style' (note 2). The hope expressed by Gordon has now been fulfilled by the discovery of a 'Persian Gulf' seal at Lothal, thus providing the first real evidence of trade contacts between India and the Persian Gulf.

scholarly journals EVOLUÇÃO DOS DESEMBARQUES DE PESCADO EM ARACAJU, SERGIPE, BRASIL

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-51
Author(s):  
Rayane Bertho ◽  
Ana Rosa Araújo ◽  
Maria Lúcia Araújo ◽  
José Milton Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Annual Production ◽  
Fishing Gear ◽  
City Center ◽  
Fleet Size ◽  
The Real ◽  
The City

Fishing on the Sergipe State coast is usually daily but depends on the tide. The main fishing landing port of the municipality of Aracaju is the Aracaju Fishing Terminal (T.P. Aracaju), located in the city center and responsible for 85% of the fishing landings. Data on fishing landings are essential tools for fisheries management, including caught species, fleet size, fishing gear and marketing. Therefore, this study’s aim was to analyze the data collected in the monitoring years from 2010 until 2016 at the T.P. Aracaju observing the developments of fish landings. The Fisheries Landings Monitoring Project - PMPDP specifically monitored and recorded the data at the Terminal Pesqueiro de Aracaju. The results showed that during the monitoring years the landings of fish from 92 vessels, locally called “lancha”, were recorded, of which 50 vessels originated from T.P. Aracaju and the other 42 vessels from other municipalities of Sergipe and other states of Brazil. The total annual production of landed fish was 426t in 2010, 567t in 2011, 504t in 2012, 761t in 2013, 910t in 2014, 822 in 2015 and 737 in 2016. Annual revenue ranged from BRL 2,985,582.00 in 2010 to BRL 8,225,128.7 in 2016, demonstrating that the sale of fish varied little in the years monitored. The work’s results show the real production landed in T.P. Aracaju, on which public policies of fisheries management in the state of Sergipe are based.

scholarly journals Excavations in Persia

1915 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-93
Author(s):  
John P. Peters
Keyword(s):  
Great Plains ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Single Channel ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
The Persian Gulf

From the head of the Persian Gulf extend two great plains, the one stretching northwestward along the Tigris and Euphrates, the other northeastward along the Karoun. These two plains constitute Turkish and Persian Arabistan respectively. They were the seat of one of the earliest and most highly developed civilizations of the world, or perhaps rather of two competing and rival civilizations. Once the region teemed with a vast population. Now it is largely desert. Both plains depend for their fertility not upon the rain, but upon the rivers which flow down from the mountains. When these were diked and dammed and carried every-whither by irrigating canals, the Babylonian plain and the steppe of Persian Arabistan were immensely fertile, capable of sustaining by their own products an enormous population. Now dikes and dams are broken and canals choked and the life-creating water runs to waste, part of the year causing inundations and turning vast regions into lakes and swamps, and the remainder of the time moving seaward through a single channel, shrunk far below its banks.

scholarly journals Geo-Strategic Significance of Kandahar for Mughal Empire

2016 ◽  
Vol I (II) ◽  
pp. 18-29
Author(s):  
Anwar Zahid ◽  
Sumaira ◽  
Riaz Sadia
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mughal Empire ◽  
Important Region ◽  
Strategic Location ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
Strong Control

Kandahar is one of the most significant and important region of Afghanistan. It had been ruled by the great dynasties like Greece, Muryans, Kushans, Hindu Shahis, Mongols and the Mughals etc. Because of its significant location, Kandahar remained the bone of contention between different Empires and dynasties. When the Mughal occupied India, it became necessary for them to make a strong hold on Kandahar because of its strategic location that connects Persia with India. Kandahar was a gateway to India from Persia and for the safety of India and Kabul the Mughals were struggling to have strong control over the area. It connects South Asian subcontinent with Central Asia, Middle East and the Persian Gulf. On the other side Persia considered Kandahar as her integral part particularly from the reign of Shah Tahmasp and always remained busy in taking its control from the Mughals. It was necessary for them to take control of Kandahar for accomplishing the Safavid expansion policy. Thus, Kandahar remained a sandwich between two great Empires.

scholarly journals SELECTION OF KURAU FISHING TECHNOLOGY UNITS Eleutheronema tetradactylum WHICH COMPETITIVE AND SUSTAINABLE

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 521-535
Author(s):  
Muhammad Natsir Kholis ◽  
Ronny I Wahju ◽  
. Mustaruddin
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Analytical Data ◽  
The Other ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Fishing Gear ◽  
Combined Analysis ◽  
Socioeconomic Aspects ◽  
Research Show ◽  
Selection Of

Environmentally friendly fishing technology unit is needed in sustainable fisheries management. The purpose of this study was to determine the fishing technology unit of kurau competitive and sustainable. Data collection was carried out from July to September 2016 in the Coastal Pambang of Bengkalis District of Riau Province, by using the survey method. The analytical data method used is scoring the biological, technical and socioeconomic aspects the fishing technology unit of kurau. Results of research show that combined analysis of biological, technical and socioeconomic aspects have the value of the VA fishing line function (2.48) is higher than the other three fishing gear. Thus, the fishing line is a selected fishing technology unit of kurau competitive and sustainable in the Coastal Pambang Bengkalis District. Keywords: competitive,coastal pambang, fishing technology, kurau fish,sustainable fishing

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