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The loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) is found throughout the waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. It is a protected species throughout much of its range due to threats such as habitat loss, fisheries interactions, hatchling predation, and marine debris. Loggerheads that occur in ...
Predatory interaction of marine mammals with longline fisheries is observed globally, leading to partial or complete loss of the catch and in some parts of the world to considerable financial loss. Depredation can also create additional unrecorded fishing mortality of a stock and has the potential to ...
Despite a strong increase in research on seamounts and oceanic islands ecology and biogeography, many basic aspects of their biodiversity are still unknown. In the southwestern Atlantic, the Vitória-Trindade Seamount Chain (VTC) extends ca. 1,200 km offshore the Brazilian continental shelf, from the ...
This article, written by Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper SPE 80484, ""A Novel Method of Assessment of Spurt- and Filtrate- Related Formation-Damage Potential of Drilling and Drilling-in Fluids,"" by M. Amanullah, SPE, CSIRO Petroleum, prepared for the 2003 SPE Asia ...
The species flocks of cichlid fishes in the East African Great Lakes are the largest vertebrate adaptive radiations in the world and illustrious textbook examples of convergent evolution between independent species assemblages. Although recent studies suggest some degrees of genetic exchange between ...
In this paper we estimate the living carbon lost from Ecuador’s mangrove forests since the advent of export-focused shrimp aquaculture. We use remote sensing techniques to delineate the extent of mangroves and aquaculture at approximately decadal periods since the arrival of aquaculture in each Ecuadorian ...
Farmed fish escape and enter the environment with subsequent effects on wild populations. Reducing escapes requires the ability to trace individuals back to the point of escape, so that escape causes can be identified and technical standards improved. Here, we tested if stable isotope otolith fingerprint ...
Process to prepare a packaged food concentrate with the appearance of a gel, comprising the steps of: a) Providing a solution comprising: ° Water, ° An effective amount of gelling system, b) Combining the solution resulting from step a) with at least one item comprising compressed food material, c) ...
Fat particles useful in food compositions as doughs, methods of preparing the fat particles, method of preparing the food compositions (e.g., doughs) that contain the fat particles, and methods of preparing a baked food product from the food composition, wherein the fat particles contain flavorant salt. ...
A retort sterilization device 100 includes a heating pot 50 for accommodating retort food 70; and a water steam generation device 10 for generating water steam. The heating pot 50 is connected to the water steam generation device 10. The water steam generation device 10 has a liquid path 91 and a vapor ...
This invention relates to the industrial fishing and can be used for catching fish using trawls. This invention relates to the improvement of the operational properties of a trawl by method of evenly distributing loads in the netting fabric and prolonging operational time of the trawl. Herein described ...
The testing device (14) has a measuring tongue receptacle (16) for placing the measuring tongues of a measuring instrument. A force measuring sensor (19) and a measuring tongue sensor (26) are spaced apart at certain measuring distance (24) in the longitudinal direction of the measuring tongue receptacle. ...
A lure of the present invention has a hollow portion 2 therein, the body 3 being made of a translucent material. A body inner wall surface forming the hollow portion 2 has a polyhedral structure including a first plane 61 and a second plane 62 connected to the first plane 61, and a multilayer colored ...
A gear attachment structure receives rotation of a handle assembly. The gear attachment structure includes a traverse cam shaft and a driven gear. The traverse cam shaft includes a shaft body, a gear support portion and a gear engaging portion. The gear support portion includes intersecting helical ...
A coiled wave spring (9) includes a first and second coiled portions (91a, 91b). The first coiled portion (91a) has a plurality of first valley parts (911a) and a plurality of first peak parts (912a). The first valley parts (911a) and the first peak parts (912a) are alternately disposed in a circumferential ...
It is intended to provide solid feeds in an arbitrary size, in particular, fish feeds for large-size fishes such as tuna and a process for conveniently producing the same. Namely, a bound feed preferably having a diameter or a major axis of 5 cm or longer which is prepared by secondarily binding one ...
Bactericidal bacterial cells obtained by heating bacterial cells of coryneform bacteria or intestinal bacteria for 3 to 4 minutes at 90 to 120°C under a pH condition of 2 to 5, for example, or feed containing the bactericidal bacterial cells, is administered to mammals, birds, fish or crustaceans so ...
The invention is a float for ensilation, comprising the following features: - one or more hulls with one or more closed tank rooms in said hull, - with an inlet to a grinder arranged for receiving and grinding fish and for feeding the ground fish down into one or more of the tank rooms. The ensilation ...
Drug-coated balloons (DCB), which have emerged as a therapeutic alternative to drug-eluting stents in percutaneous cardiovascular intervention, are well described with regard to clinical efficacy and safety within a number of clinical studies. In vitro studies elucidating the correlation between coating ...
Spatial heterogeneity plays an important role in complex ecosystem dynamics, and therefore is also an important consideration in sustainable resource management. However, little is known about how spatial effects can influence management targets derived from a non-spatial harvest model. Here, we extended ...