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To run the ITQ system as well as other components of the fisheries management system, the Icelandic government conducts a number of activities which may be regarded as fisheries management services. The most important of these are performed by (i)...
2014-07-07 (iso8601)
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Consumer-facing traceability systems are emerging in the global seafood sector as a way for companies to reduce their reputational risk, access certain markets, and to generally communicate production practices to downstream actors. What are the...
2014 (iso8601)
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Within Indonesia and across the region the requirement for traceability within the seafood supply chain is limited to meeting the basic standard of HACCP, namely that the individual fish be traceable back to the 1st supplier, for quality sampling...
2014-07-07 (iso8601)
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Can government regulations and company concerns to reduce their reputational and business risk lead to an increase in traceability programs? Are the drivers of traceability attributed to concerns over seafood sustainability, food provenance,...
2014-07-07 (iso8601)
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This project looks at the relationship between social value and health outcomes among elderly individuals. It looks at the World Values Survey for an international view on how different societies view the elderly populations and compares it to the...
03-2014 (iso8601)
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Youth corrections teachers are an under-researched group of individuals who have much to lend to the discussion surrounding youth corrections including teaching methodologies, challenges, and benefits. This report summarizes the available academic...
2015-03-19 (iso8601)
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Individual transferable quotas (ITQs) have been used in several countries worldwide to regulate access to marine fisheries. While ITQs can improve the economic efficiency of fisheries, in practice their application rarely has the expected effects....
2014-07-07 (iso8601)
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Novel approaches to crop load management of pear orchards in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) are necessary, but will need to vary according to the unique vegetative and reproductive growth habits of the cultivar. 'D'Anjou' is vigorous and...
2015-03-20 (iso8601)
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Individual fishing quota (IFQ) systems are typically expected to increase the profitability of a fishery and improve sustainability by ensuring catches remain within quotas. They can also have important distributional and ecological implications...
2014-07-07 (iso8601)
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This paper presents a new technique for shape and topology optimization of fluid channels using generative
design synthesis methods. The proposed method uses the generative abilities of graph grammars with simulation
and analysis power of...
2014-08 (iso8601)
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In multi-species fisheries managed under ITQs, the existence of joint production may lead to complex catch-quota balancing issues. Previous modelling and experimental research suggest that, in such fisheries, some fishers may benefit from the...
2014-07-07 (iso8601)
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Since 2006, French quotas are shared out into annual catch entitlements per producer organizations (PO) according a stable allocation key. On this basis, PO’s have imposed catch shares to their own members but allocation and management rules are...
2014-07-07 (iso8601)
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In 2009 the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) established the Social Sciences Research Coordination Program (SSRCP) to increase industry and government understanding and uses of social sciences in marine and fisheries...
2014-07-07 (iso8601)
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Since the 1990s Pacific island countries have been host to a plethora of projects to improve the management of coastal marine environments. Some of these have been about strengthening Indigenous and community-based forms of resource management....
2014-07-07 (iso8601)
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For decades, the management of the Dutch flatfish fishery has included a variety of measures including individual transferable quotas (ITQ) and the implementation of a co-management system without succeeding in recovering the fishery to...
2014-07-07 (iso8601)
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Amendment 80 of the Bering & Sea Aleutian Island Groundfish Fisheries Management Plan instituted groundfish retention standards (GRS) with the goal of reducing discards, which had been historically high for a particular fleet. The GRS continue to...
2014-07-07 (iso8601)
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Total water levels (TWLs) within estuaries are influenced by tides, wind, offshore waves, and
streamflow, all of which are uniquely affected by climate change. The magnitude of TWL associated with various
return periods is relevant to...
2015-01 (iso8601)
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This paper examines the sources of uncertainty for the Forced Diffusion (FD) chamber soil
respiration (R[subscript s]) measurement technique and demonstrates a protocol for uncertainty quantification that
could be appropriate with any soil flux...
2015-01 (iso8601)
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Here, we describe and demonstrate a geographic information systems-based lithic morphometric research (GLiMR) software approach. GLiMR accurately and rapidly handles a sequence of ArcGIS procedures to extract geometric morphometric data from 2D...
2015-04-03 (iso8601)
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Bird and bat mortalities caused by interactions with wind turbines is a critical concern that requires addressing for conservation purposes. Deploying a low cost sensor array will be instrumental during site permitting, conducting impact...
2015-03-24 (iso8601)
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Vertically shoot positioned (VSP) training systems are common in Oregon's Willamette Valley, where deep fertile soils and high regional precipitation task growers with curbing vegetative vigor within this system. Management strategies, such as...
2015-03-04 (iso8601)
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The purpose of this dissertation was to gain an understanding of supervision in the counseling profession, as well as an understanding of the experiences of licensure supervisors. This was accomplished through qualitative metasynthesis of the...
2015-03-18 (iso8601)
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