Comments on "The Physical Environment Affected by Shrimp Trawling in the Northern Western Gulf," solicited by Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn M. Scanlon
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Fishery Management ◽  
Management Council

Reviving Red Snapper

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 66-69
Author(s):  
barry estabrook
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Fishery Management ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Red Snapper ◽  
Lutjanus Campechanus ◽  
Management Council

Red snappers in the Gulf of Mexico once hovered on the brink of extinction, their population having dropped to 2 percent of what had historically swum in the Gulf. But thanks to a recently introduced plan that turns the conventional wisdom of fisheries management on its head, the picture has begun to change. Called Individual Fishing Quotas (IFQs), the new regulations, which give a guaranteed allotment of fish to each participant instead of applying industry-wide quotas, went into effect for Gulf of Mexico Red Snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) in early 2007. The results were immediate and so profound that the Gulf Fishery Management Council voted earlier this year to increase the annual limit on red snapper to nearly 7 million pounds from 5 million.

The Role of the New England Regional Fishery Management Council on Georges Bank

Georges Bank ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 141-149
Author(s):  
Henry Lyman
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Fishery Management ◽  
Georges Bank ◽  
Management Council

scholarly journals Physical Transport Processes that Affect the Distribution of Oil in the Gulf of Mexico: Observations and Modeling

Oceanography ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-75
Author(s):  
Michel Boufadel ◽  
◽  
Annalisa Bracco ◽  
Eric Chassignet ◽  
Shuyi Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Transport Processes ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Surface Mixed Layer ◽  
Physical Processes ◽  
Mixing Processes ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Wide Range

Physical transport processes such as the circulation and mixing of waters largely determine the spatial distribution of materials in the ocean. They also establish the physical environment within which biogeochemical and other processes transform materials, including naturally occurring nutrients and human-made contaminants that may sustain or harm the region’s living resources. Thus, understanding and modeling the transport and distribution of materials provides a crucial substrate for determining the effects of biological, geological, and chemical processes. The wide range of scales in which these physical processes operate includes microscale droplets and bubbles; small-scale turbulence in buoyant plumes and the near-surface “mixed” layer; submesoscale fronts, convergent and divergent flows, and small eddies; larger mesoscale quasi-geostrophic eddies; and the overall large-scale circulation of the Gulf of Mexico and its interaction with the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea; along with air-sea interaction on longer timescales. The circulation and mixing processes that operate near the Gulf of Mexico coasts, where most human activities occur, are strongly affected by wind- and river-induced currents and are further modified by the area’s complex topography. Gulf of Mexico physical processes are also characterized by strong linkages between coastal/shelf and deeper offshore waters that determine connectivity to the basin’s interior. This physical connectivity influences the transport of materials among different coastal areas within the Gulf of Mexico and can extend to adjacent basins. Major advances enabled by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative in the observation, understanding, and modeling of all of these aspects of the Gulf’s physical environment are summarized in this article, and key priorities for future work are also identified.

Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management for the New England Fishery Management Council

2012 ◽  
pp. 87-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. O'Boyle ◽  
S. Cadrin ◽  
D. Georgianna ◽  
J. Kritzer ◽  
M. Sissenwine ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Fishery Management ◽  
Management Council

scholarly journals Human dimensions of climate change and fisheries in a coupled system: the Atlantic surfclam case

2011 ◽  
Vol 68 (6) ◽  
pp. 1354-1367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie J. McCay ◽  
Sylvia Brandt ◽  
Carolyn F. Creed
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Fishery Management ◽  
Coupled System ◽  
Human Dimensions ◽  
Decision Processes ◽  
Ecological System ◽  
Economic Modelling ◽  
Cognitive Frames ◽  
Marine System ◽  
Management Council

Abstract McCay, B. J., Brandt, S., and Creed, C. F. 2011. Human dimensions of climate change and fisheries in a coupled system: the Atlantic surfclam case. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 68: 1354–1367. Research on changes in a coupled marine system of the Mid-Atlantic Bight, focusing on Atlantic surfclams and the associated fishery and management system, is reviewed for how the human dimensions of this coupled socio-ecological system are addressed by the researchers. Our foci are on economic modelling of spatial choices, using dynamic optimization with adjustments that reflect better the natural and socio-economic realities of the fishery and on ethnographic observations of decision processes, particularly those of the regional fishery management council, with particular emphasis on cognitive frames and management communities. These are designed to be integrated with and to complement biophysical modelling of the complex coupled socio-ecological system.

Red Snapper: Ecology and Fisheries in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico

2007 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Population Size ◽  
Fishery Management ◽  
Fork Length ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Red Snapper ◽  
Lutjanus Campechanus ◽  
Minimal Data ◽  
Sexually Mature ◽  
The U.S

<em>Abstract.</em>—Red snapper, <em>Lutjanus campechanus</em>, has been fished for over a century, with management beginning in the Gulf of Mexico (Gulf) in the early 1990s when perceptions of a declining population size surfaced. Red snapper are managed as a unit stock and the fishery management plan is based upon minimal data regarding reproductive output, and size and age at sexual maturation is not certain. Differences in size and age at sexual maturity of red snapper between the northeast and north-central Gulf were evaluated to test whether the population conforms to the unit stock hypothesis. Red snapper were collected during the spawning season in 1999, 2000, and 2001 from the Gulf off Alabama and Louisiana and were used to describe maturation schedules. Progression of oocyte maturation to vitellogenesis was used to define and identify sexually mature females. Combined data showed the smallest mature red snapper was 267 mm fork length (FL) and was two years old. The smallest with hydrated oocytes, indicative of imminent spawning, or postovulatory follicles, indicative of recent spawning, were 285 mm and 297 mm FL respectively, and both were two years old. Red snapper off Alabama reached maturation at smaller sizes and younger ages than those sampled off Louisiana. Growth rates did not differ between the regions. Such differences in maturation schedules may document an important stock response to reductions in population size.

Toward a Sustainable Fishery Management Policy

2016 ◽  
pp. 1701-1722
Author(s):  
Steven P. Coy ◽  
Margaret F. Shipley ◽  
J. Brooke Shipley-Lozano
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Fishery Management ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Shark Species ◽  
Ann Model ◽  
Bull Shark ◽  
Habitat Usage ◽  
Artificial Neural Network Ann ◽  
Sustainable Fishery

This article proposes an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model to predict neonatal and juvenile bull shark habitat usage in the Sabine Pass, located within the Gulf of Mexico between Louisiana and Texas. Given continuing discussion regarding overfishing of all shark species, including bull sharks, in the northwestern Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, the research objective was to analyze environmental data proven to be conducive to bull shark early life stages and to use these data in an ANN to predict bull shark presence during late spring and throughout summer months at designated sampling sites. The results of this analysis can both aid decision making in a fisheries context and inform the discussion on bull shark habitat usage in general, thereby contributing to the discussion of whether or not the need exists for conservation efforts to ensure sustainability of the species as part of an effective bull shark management plan.

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