Browsing by Subject "Fisheries management"
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Adaptive and neutral genetic variation in spring- and fall-spawning herring (Clupea harengus L.) in the Northwest Atlantic
(2020-09-11)Understanding the factors influencing the spatial distribution of intraspecific diversity is both a fundamental goal in evolutionary biology and necessary for the design of robust management strategies for harvested species. ... -
Application of an Environmental Management Systems Approach to Fisheries : A Case Study of the Fishery of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation
(2001)This study explores the potential contribution of the environmental management systems approach to fisheries management. A review of fisheries management literature was conducted, and a case study was used, to develop an ... -
Distinguishing input controls from ouput controls in Atlantic Canada's fisheries: explaining the decline and collapse of Newfoundland's Atlantic cod stocks
(2013-03-14)The lobster and groundfish fisheries of Atlantic Canada have been managed in very different ways. The Atlantic lobster fishery has been managed by input controls in which regulations have been developed by a posteriori ... -
HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF FISH IN COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS
(2016-04-06)Fisheries have contributed to human well-being for centuries. Coastal ecosystems function as fish nurseries, thus adding to fisheries productivity. This thesis examines historical change of commercially important fish in ... -
Karl Popper’s organon and the world’s fisheries: fish stock assessment as a pseudoscience, an inductivism that can bear no fruit
(2006)Recent long term historical studies of commercial fisheries have pointed to a well established pattern of overfishing. Under the principle of transference – what is true in logic is true in psychology and scientific method ... -
A note on the Aristotelian origin of Popper's demarcation criterion together with its application to Atlantic Canada's fisheries
(2012-03-26)It has not always been realised that Karl Popper's demarcation criterion, the criterion he uses to distinguish an empirical science from its 'metaphysical' complement involves an interpretation of the classical theory of ... -
NOVEL APPLICATIONS OF RANDOM FOREST FOR EXPLORING POPULATION STRUCTURE OF ATLANTIC SALMON (SALMO SALAR) IN LABRADOR, CANADA
(2017-08-28)The detection of population-genetic structure is useful for understanding patterns of gene flow, population distribution, and wildlife management and conservation. In this work, we examine approaches for inferring the ... -
Some notes on the Aristotelian origin of the distinction between a falsificationist's and verificationist's view of science: together with corrections to my earlier account
(2012-10-31)It has not always been realised that Karl Popper's analytic distinction between the logically stronger falsificationist's view of science and the logically weaker verificationist's and inductivist's view of science is a ... -
Subsidies and their Implications on Fisheries Management in St. Lucia
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2011-03-31)Worldwide, fisheries subsidies contribute to fleet overcapacity, to overfishing, and to the decimation of the marine environment. Despite the fact that small-scale fisheries catch roughly the same amount of edible fish ...