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Living marine resources of Kuwait, eastern Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates
\"Living Marine Resources of Kuwait, Eastern Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates\" is a definitive taxonomic and ecological guide to the marine life of the Persian (Arabian) Gulf. Published primarily as a technical resource for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the work provides an exhaustive inventory of the fish, crustaceans, mollusks, and sea turtles inhabiting the shallow, hypersaline waters of the southern and western Gulf. Authored by Kent E. Carpenter and his colleagues, the manual serves as a critical tool for species identification, fisheries management, and biodiversity conservation in one of the most thermally extreme marine environments on Earth.
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The Common Fisheries Policy
Written by Ernesto Penas of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, this thorough and comprehensive book provides a full understanding of the European Commission's common fisheries policy (CFP), which is of major importance to all fisheries scientists and managers.
Commencing with introductory chapters which look at the history behind the CFP, its birth and enlargement, this excellent book continues with chapters covering the major aspects of the CFP including policies on conservation, fishing fleets, structure, control, and environment, the external sector, scientific advice, stakeholders and decision making. Further chapters consider the Mediterranean Sea, aquaculture and the reforms of the CFP. A concluding chapter looks at what's next for the CFP.
The Common Fisheries Policy is an essential reference for all fisheries managers and fisheries scientists throughout the world, and provides a huge wealth of important information for fish biologists, conservation biologists, marine biologists, environmental scientists and ecologists in academia, governmental and non-governmental organizations and commercial operations. Libraries in all universities and research establishments where fisheries and/or biological sciences are studied and taught should have copies on their shelves.
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Marine fishery resource dynamic prediction based on CNN-XGBoost fusion model
Marine fishery resource prediction is crucial for sustainable fishery management and ecosystem conservation, yet traditional statistical methods face limitations in capturing the complex non-linear relationships and multi-scale temporal dependencies inherent in marine environmental systems. This study proposes a novel CNN-XGBoost fusion model that integrates convolutional neural networks’ temporal pattern recognition capabilities with extreme gradient boosting’s ensemble learning strengths for enhanced marine fishery resource forecasting. The fusion architecture employs a hierarchical two-stage framework where CNN components extract high-level temporal features from multi-source marine environmental data, while XGBoost modules process both extracted features and engineered variables to generate final predictions. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed fusion model achieves superior performance compared to standalone CNN, XGBoost, and traditional ARIMA approaches, with 19.1% improvement in RMSE and statistically significant enhancements across all evaluation metrics. The optimal fusion weight analysis reveals that CNN-extracted features and XGBoost-processed features are weighted at 40 and 60% respectively in the final prediction fusion, achieving RMSE of 2.847, MAE of 2.184, and R
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of 0.846. These percentages represent fusion weight allocation rather than prediction accuracy values. Time series analysis confirms robust performance across seasonal variations and exceptional capability in predicting extreme abundance events critical for adaptive fishery management. The results provide valuable insights for sustainable marine resource management and offer practical tools for fishery policymakers and resource managers.
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Conflicts over marine and coastal common resources : causes, governance and prevention
\"Global marine and coastal systems are under increasing pressure, leading to competition and conflict over common pool resources. Holistic management strategies such as ecosystem-based management and marine protected areas have been slow and problematic as conflicts prevent political consensus. This book explores the types of conflicts that occur, the underlying reasons, and attempts to resolve them. Case studies cover shipping, fisheries and aquaculture, biodiversity conservation, energy and tourism sectors and are drawn from the northern and southern hemispheres as well as developed and developing countries, including Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Ireland, UK and USA\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Adapting agriculture to climate change : preparing Australian agriculture, forestry and fisheries for the future
Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change is a fundamental resource for primary industry professionals, land managers, policy makers, researchers and students involved in preparing Australia's primary industries for the challenges and opportunities of climate change. More than 30 authors have contributed to this book, which moves beyond describing the causes and consequences of climate change to providing options for people to work towards adaptation action. Climate change implications and adaptation options are given for the key Australian primary industries of horticulture, forestry, grains, rice, sugarcane, cotton, viticulture, broadacre grazing, intensive livestock industries, marine fisheries, and aquaculture and water resources. Case studies demonstrate the options for each industry. Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change summarises updated climate change scenarios for Australia with the latest climate science. It includes chapters on socio-economic and institutional considerations for adapting to climate change, greenhouse gas emissions sources and sinks, as well as risks and priorities for the future.
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The blue revolution : hunting, harvesting, and farming seafood in the information age
\"Overfishing. For the world's oceans, it's long been a worrisome problem with few answers. Many of the global fish stocks are at a dangerous tipping point, some spiraling toward extinction. But as older fishing fleets retire and new technologies develop, a better, more sustainable way to farm this popular protein has emerged to profoundly shift the balance. The Blue Revolution tells the story of the recent transformation of commercial fishing: an encouraging change from maximizing volume through unrestrained wild hunting to maximizing value through controlled harvesting and farming. Entrepreneurs applying newer, smarter technologies are modernizing fisheries in unprecedented ways. In many parts of the world, the seafood on our plates is increasingly the product of smart decisions about ecosystems, waste, efficiency, transparency, and quality.\"-- Amazon.
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Exploring the influence of economic freedom index on fishing grounds footprint in environmental Kuznets curve framework through spatial econometrics technique: evidence from Asia-Pacific countries
Environmental challenges are as vast as the universe, allowing for numerous studies on their various dimensions. Using 17 data sets from Asia-Pacific countries between 2000 and 2017, this study attempted to investigate the economic factors influencing the ecological footprint of the fishing sector. The primary contribution of this study is to examine the effects of nine economic freedom indicators, as well as other control variables, on the status of fishery resources due to environmental pressure. The findings confirm the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis in the fishing grounds footprint, indicating that GDP per capita growth has a positive and significant effect, even though its squared form coefficient is negative. Other control variables, including natural resource rents, urbanization, and energy intensity, do not significantly affect the fishing footprint. The different components of economic freedom show different effects, while their cumulative effects in the form of the total economic freedom index positively affect the footprint of fishing and lead to increased extraction from fishing resources. The results show that the government integrity, tax burden, business freedom, and monetary freedom indices increase the fishing footprint. In contrast, indices of trade freedom and investment freedom, by highlighting the adverse effects of fishing on the environment, help countries reduce pressure on their aquatic resources. The findings of this study highlight the importance of examining how various dimensions of economic freedom affect the ability to manage fishery resources effectively.
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The Mediterranean and Black Sea Fisheries at Risk from Overexploitation
The status of the Mediterranean and Black Sea fisheries was evaluated for the period 1970-2010 on a subarea basis, using various indicators including the temporal variability of total landings, the number of recorded stocks, the mean trophic level of the catch, the fishing-in-balance index and the catch-based method of stock classification. All indicators confirmed that the fisheries resources of the Mediterranean and Black Sea are at risk from overexploitation. The pattern of exploitation and the state of stocks differed among the western (W), central (C) and eastern (E) Mediterranean subareas and the Black Sea (BS), with the E Mediterranean and BS fisheries being in a worst shape. Indeed, in the E Mediterranean and the BS, total landings, mean trophic level of the catch and fishing-in-balance index were declining, the cumulative percentage of overexploited and collapsed stocks was higher, and the percentage of developing stocks was lower, compared to the W and C Mediterranean. Our results confirm the need for detailed and extensive stock assessments across species that will eventually lead to stocks recovering through conservation and management measures.
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