The Aftermath

2019 ◽  
pp. 163-176
Author(s):  
Robb Robinson
Keyword(s):  
British Isles ◽  
Considerable Time ◽  
Major Task ◽  
Fishing Vessels ◽  
The Mediterranean

This chapter recounts the demobilisation of Auxiliary Patrol vessels and fishermen that began in early 1919, in which the bases from which the force had operated were already being run down. It describes the dismantling of the Auxiliary Patrol as a major task that involved thousands of people and vessels and took some considerable time to organise and carry through to fruition. It also talks about fishing vessels and crews that returned to their home ports from bases around the British Isles and beyond. The chapter mentions Skipper William Oliver, who had been stationed in Malta and commanded the minesweeping trawlers that were amongst the first to return from the Mediterranean. It highlights the disappearance of drifter John Robert and its 11 crew members while voyaging from Messina to Alexandria on 1 February 1919.

scholarly journals III.—Phases of the Living Greek Language

1892 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-55
Author(s):  
Blackie
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Political Life ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Public Mind ◽  
The Public ◽  
Radical Reform ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Mediterranean

I will commence by stating that three reasons have moved me to bring this subject before the Society—(1) Because I found everywhere loose and even altogether false ideas possessing the public mind on the subject; (2) because I much fear that we, the academical teachers of the Greek language, are chiefly to blame for the currency of these false ideas; and (3) because, if Greek is a living and uncorrupted language, and dominating large districts of Europe and the Mediterranean, as influentially as French on the banks of the Seine and German on the Rhine, it follows that a radical reform must take place in our received methods of teaching this noble and most useful language. Now that the current language of the Greeks in Athens and elsewhere is not, in any sense, a new or a corrupt language, as Italian is a melodious and French a glittering corruption of Latin, may be gathered even a priori; for languages are slow to die, and the time that elapsed from the taking of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453 and the establishment of the Venetian power in the Morea in 1204, to the resurrection of Greek political life in 1822, was not long enough to cause such a fusion of contrary elements as produced the English language from the permanent occupation of the British Isles by the Normans.

Synoptic Ice Maps of the Meteorological Office

1968 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. A. Tunnell
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Sea Ice ◽  
Long Range ◽  
Considerable Time ◽  
Sea Temperature ◽  
Weather Forecasts ◽  
Antarctic Sea Ice ◽  
Fishing Vessels ◽  
First Time ◽  
Entire Distribution

For a considerable time fishing vessels, merchant ships, long-range forecasters and oceanographers have needed up-to-date sea ice information. This paper describes how the heterogeneous mass of ice information combined with the very thorough climatic analysis now available has been used to produce for the first time an up-to-date picture of the entire distribution of ice in the Polar Basin and areas adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean.For over a century a function of the Marine Division of the Meteorological Office has been the recording of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice, particularly since the Titanic disaster. However, the comprehensive hemispherical ice maps produced internationally have been several years in arrears. Ice information supplied to ships was therefore usually based on average conditions which suffice for planning well ahead or on long-range weather forecasts where it is necessary to follow ice development closely. It was decided in 1959 to organize a synoptic ice map with up-to-date ice and sea temperature information. Ice being more conservative than the weather, a map produced every ten days has proved to be sufficient.

Occurrence of Juvenile Red Mullet (Mullus Surmuletus) on the West Coast of Scotland

1997 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 911-912 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.N. Gibson ◽  
L. Robb
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
North Sea ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Fish Fauna ◽  
The West ◽  
Fishing Vessels ◽  
Red Mullet ◽  
Sea Bed ◽  
Mullus Surmuletus ◽  
The Mediterranean

Eight individuals of Mullus surmuletus (Teleostei: Mullidae) ≤80 mm total length were captured in shallow water in the Firth of Lorn, western Scotland in August and September 1995. The species is rare on the west coast of Scotland and the occurrence of juveniles is a new record for the area.The red mullet (Mullus surmuletus L.) is a species whose distribution is centred on the Mediterranean where it forms the basis of a commercial fishery (e.g. Renoñes et al., 1995). Outside the Mediterranean it is found on eastern Atlantic coasts from the Canaries northwards to the English Channel and the southern North Sea where it is ‘moderately common’ (Wheeler, 1969). Further north it is regarded as rare (Wheeler, 1969; Hureau, 1986) and the northern limit is variously given as Scotland (Lythgoe & Lythgoe, 1992) or southern Norway (Wheeler, 1978). Most northern records are from the North Sea (Rae & Wilson, 1954; Rae & Lamont, 1964), presumably reflecting the intensive fishing effort in this area. Records to the west of the British Isles are few and have been summarized by Gordon (1981) and subsequently by Henderson (1986, personal communication), including one from the Faeroes (Blacker, 1977). All recorded occurrences in western Scotland are of adult fish (26–31 cm) caught by commercial fishing vessels and juveniles have never been reported from this area. This note documents (Table 1) the capture of small individuals (N=8) in shallow water off the west coast of Scotland in an area where they had never been recorded previously, despite intensive studies of the local fish fauna since 1970 (R.N.G., personal observation; Gibson, 1973; Gibson et al., 1993). The eight fish were caught on Tralee beach, Ardmucknish Bay, Firth of Lorn, Argyll (56°31′N 5°29′W). The sea bed in this area consists of fine sand (Gibson et al., 1993). It is possible that their occurrence is linked with the unusually warm summer of 1995 allowing juveniles to penetrate further north than usual. Water temperatures at 2–5 m on 29 August, 1995 were 14.3°C compared with a maximum of 13.6°C recorded over the period 1986–1989 (Gibson et al., 1993).

scholarly journals Stock Identification of Engraulis encrasicolus (Linnaeus, 1758) by Discriminant Function Analysis (DFA) of Morphometric Characters in The North of Atlantic and Mediterranean Moroccan Coasts

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
pp. 553-558
Author(s):  
Mouna El qendouci ◽  
Fatima Wariaghli ◽  
Mehria Saadaoui ◽  
Lobna Boudaya ◽  
Lassad Neifar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Discriminant Function ◽  
Discriminant Function Analysis ◽  
Function Analysis ◽  
Stock Structure ◽  
Morphometric Characters ◽  
European Anchovy ◽  
Engraulis Encrasicolus ◽  
The North ◽  
Fishing Vessels ◽  
The Mediterranean

The European anchovy, Engraulis encrasicolus (Linnaeus, 1758) is a small pelagic fish found in the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea. Anchovy (E. encrasicolus) are among the important finfishes harvested in Moroccan coasts. The stock structure of European anchovy in NW Africa is not truly known (FAO, 2013). To effectively manage the anchovy fisheries, it is important to understand the anchovy stock structure. Therefore, discriminant function analysis (DFA) based on morphometric characters was conducted on a total of 204 adult anchovy specimens, seasonally collected by commercial fishing vessels from the region of Mehdia in the North Atlantic area and from the region of M’diq in the Mediterranean coast during the year 2019. Body shape variation, which is often environmentally induced, may provide a good record population structuring. Our data were subjected to univariate statistics of variance (ANOVA) by using SPSS 20 software version. The morphometric characteristics show a separation of two stocks of Engraulis encrasicolus between the two localities. These findings will have major implications for anchovy fisheries management in Morocco.

scholarly journals Observations on Nephrops norvegicus (L.) and on an epizoic population of Balanus crenatus Brug

1951 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 369-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Barnes ◽  
T. B. Bagenal
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Nephrops Norvegicus ◽  
General Biology ◽  
Far North ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Norway Lobster ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
The Mediterranean

The Dublin Prawn or Norway Lobster, Nephrops norvegicus (L.), is widely distributed on soft muddy bottoms, usually between 10 and 50 fathoms. It is found as far north as Iceland and the North Cape, is common in the North Sea and off the Atlantic shores of the British Isles, and extends as far south as the coast of Morocco; a variety, v. meridionalis (Zariquiey-Cenarro, 1935) is found in the Mediterranean and Adriatic (see Havinga, 1929, and Heldt & Heldt, 1931, for details of its distribution). Some aspects of the general biology of Nephrops have been dealt with by Höglund (1942) and Poulsen (1946) for Scandinavian waters, and by McIntosh (1904, 1908) and Storrow (1912)for the waters off north-east England. To a large extent all these workers relied on market catches.

scholarly journals Systematic conservation planning in the Mediterranean: a flexible tool for the identification of no-take marine protected areas

2008 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luigi Maiorano ◽  
Valerio Bartolino ◽  
Francesco Colloca ◽  
Alvaro Abella ◽  
Andrea Belluscio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Conservation Planning ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Systematic Conservation Planning ◽  
Flexible Tool ◽  
Fishing Vessels ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract Maiorano, L., Bartolino, V., Colloca, F., Abella, A., Belluscio, A., Carpentieri, P., Criscoli, A., Jona Lasinio, G., Mannini, A., Pranovi, F., Reale, B., Relini, G., Viva, C., and Ardizzone, G. D. 2009. Systematic conservation planning in the Mediterranean: a flexible tool for the identification of no-take marine protected areas. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 66: 137–146. We propose the use of systematic conservation planning in the Mediterranean context for the identification of no-take marine protected areas (NTMPAs). We suggest a logical framework that should be used for the identification of areas to be targeted for multispecies, spatially explicit conservation actions. Specifically, we propose seven steps: (i) definition of the study area; (ii) selection of the species or habitats to be considered; (iii) definition of the planning units; (iv) measurement of the fishing effort; (v) definition of the conservation targets; (vi) review of the existing conservation areas; (vii) selection of additional NTMPAs. Moreover, we consider the potential impact of different conservation plans on existing fishing vessels. A working example is presented, focusing on a limited number of species and on a limited study area. This framework can be easily expanded to include datasets of different origin and to accommodate larger spatial scales. Such a process involves major data-collection and capacity-building elements, and conservation of productive commercial fisheries must be a priority.

The Trawler Reserve and Minesweeping: January 1915–December 1917

2019 ◽  
pp. 44-64
Author(s):  
Robb Robinson
Keyword(s):  
East Coast ◽  
Early Spring ◽  
First Year ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Royal Navy ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Dogger Bank ◽  
Eastern Side ◽  
Fishing Vessels ◽  
The Great War

This chapter focuses on minesweeping vessels in service in the seas around the British Isles in the early spring of 1915. It describes the domestic sphere of operations of trawlers and their crews that primarily focused on the east coast of England. It also mentions the minesweepers that sailed out of Scottish ports and provided protection for the Grand Fleet and other Royal Navy surface ships. The chapter looks at the disposition of the flotillas of fishermen and hired fishing vessels that reflected the main areas of German minelaying off the coasts of Britain in the first year of the Great War. It details the significant operations that had taken place off the eastern side of the Dogger Bank.

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