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Heat shock protein expression in fish
Iwama, George K. Thomas, Philip T. Forsyth, Robert B. Vijayan, Mathilakath M.
Published in Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
Heat shock proteins (HSP) are a family of proteins expressed in response to a wide range of biotic and abiotic stressors. They are thus also referred to as stress proteins. Their extraordinarily high degree of identity at the amino acid sequence level and the fact that this cellular stress response has been described in nearly all organisms studied...
Points of view: A framework for multispecies modelling of Arcto-boreal systems
Stefansson, Gunnar Palsson, Olafur K.
Points of view: Cannibalism and OSR -- a response to Kvarnemo
Smith, Carl Wootton, Robert J.
An ecological view of the tuna--dolphin problem: impacts and trade-offs
Hall, Martin A.
After a brief description of purse seining and the other methods used to catch yellowfin tuna in the eastern Pacific Ocean, some consideration s are made on the tuna--dolphin association and the solution of the problem of dolphin mortality in the eastern Pacific. The association has been observed in other ocenas, but the frequency of setting in the...
Modelling spatial dynamics of fish
Giske, Jarl Huse, Geir Fiksen, Oyvind
Our ability to model spatial distributions of fish populations is reviewed by describing the available modelling tools. Ultimate models of the individual's motivation for behavioural decisions are derived from evolutionary ecology. Mechanistic models for how fish sense and may respond to their surroundings are presented for vision, olfaction, heari...
Points of view: Why male cannibalism won't cause a female-biased OSR -- a comment on Smith and Wootton's paper
Kvarnemo, Charlotta
Management procedures in a fishery based on highly variable stocks and with conflicting objectives: experiences in the S...
Cochrane, Kevern L Butterworth, Doug S. De Oliveira, José A.A. Roel, Beatriz A.
The pelagic fishery in South Africa targets mainly anchovy, Engraulis capensis, and sardine, Sardinops sagax, both of which have varied substantially in abundance during the history of the fishery. Since 1988, there has been progress in this fishery towards the use of management procedures as the basis for determination of management regulations, w...
Crustacean resources are vulnerable to serial depletion – the multifaceted decline of crab and shrimp fisheries in the G...
Armstrong, Janet Armstrong, David Hilborn, Ray
The seas around Alaska support (or have supported) some of the most commercially significant crustacean stocks in the world, spread over an overwhelming array of extensive and diverse coastal and open shelf areas. Major resources include three species of king crab (Paralithodes spp. and Lithodes aequispina), Tanner and snow crab (Chionoecetes spp.)...
When Do Environment–recruitment Correlations Work?
Myers, Ransom A.
I review the role of environmental variability in the survival of juvenile fish and shellfish by examining the success of previously published environment–recruitment correlations when tested with new data. The proportion of published correlations that have been verified upon retest is low. There is one generalization that stands out: correlations ...
A Cover Story: Fisheries May Drive Stocks to Extinction
Pitcher, Tony J.
The cover of the 1993 reprint of Beverton and Holt's book bears a diagram, its significance previously unrecognized, that expresses extinction due to fishing. This paper traces the concept to self-regenerating yield models in their 1957 book, its numerical development therein far in advance of its reinvention 30 years later. Local extinction consti...