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Open Journal of Marine Science (OJMS) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in marine science. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of marine…
Md. Monjur Hasan, 1 1, B. M. Sajjad Hossain, Md. Jobaer Alam, K. M. Azam Chowdhury, Ahmad Al Karim, Nuruddin Md. Khaled Chowdhury, 1 1
This paper draws attention to the prospects of sea-based economy to promote Bangladesh in a middle-income country through the sustainable use of marine resources. About three-fourths of the earth is covered by the seas. It plays the vital role in two importan…
Marx Perfecto C. Garcia, Annie Melinda Paz-Alberto, Tereso A. Abella, Chito F. Sace, Eric G. Claudio, Arneil G. Gabriel
Little is known about the diversity and status of endemic freshwater fishes which are valuable bio-indicators of ecosystem health and an integral part of a country’s natural heritage. Some of the less studied areas in the Philippines are the river systems in…
Julian Ransangan, Tan Kar Soon
Marudu Bay is part of the Tun Mustapha Marine Park, the largest marine protected area within the Malaysian region of the Coral Triangle Initiative. The bay is known for its diversed fisheries resources including bivalves. Although some of these bivalve specie…
Matthew J. Draud, M. Itzkowitz
The island of Jamaica is often cited as an example of how overfishing has dramatically reduced the sizes of coral reef fishes. To examine the change in fish sizes over a 36-year period, we analyzed data from systematic surveys conducted in 1977 and 2013/14 of…
Xiaoqing Tian, Chengqi Fan, Zhidong Liu, Hongliang Huang, Yanan Lu
Phospholipids are one of the major bioactive ingredients of Antarctic krill Euphausea superba . A feasible and effective extraction method of Antarctic krill oil was investigated and modified by orthogonal test which the ratio of solid to liquid was 1:2.5, ex…
J. J. Currie, S. H. Stack, J. A. McCordic, J. Roberts
The Hawaiian Islands, and particularly the Maui 4-island region, are a critical breeding and calving habitat for humpback whales ( Megaptera novaeangliae ) belonging to the Hawaii distinct population segment. Our aims were to test the use of platforms-of-oppo…
Nicolas Filatoff, Xavier Carton
We present a set of equations describing the nonlinear dynamics of flows constrained by environmental rotation and stratification (Rossby numbers R o ∈[0.1,0.5] and Burger numbers of order unity). The fluid is assumed incompressible, adiabatic, inviscid and i…
Delaram Golmarvi, Maryam Fallahi Kapourchali, Ali Mashinchian Moradi, Mohammadreza Fatemi, Rezvan Mousavi Nadoshan
Anzali International wetland is one of the most important places for various organisms such as fishes. Zooplankton are the first consumers in the ecosystem, and they are perfect food for the larvae of fishes. The present study conducted monthly during January…
Kristi A. Foster, Greg Foster
Individual hard coral colonies from four representative reef sites around Little Cayman were surveyed yearly between 2010 and 2015, a period of non-disturbance between two elevated seawater temperature anomalies. Photographic censuses produced 7069 annual tra…
Chinnusamy Jeeva, P. M. Mohan, K. K. Dil Baseer Sabith, Vibha V. Ubare, Mariyappan Muruganantham, Radha Karuna Kumari
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the gastropod diversity is high, due to the majority of shores are rocky. The wet rocky shore promotes algal growth, which is ultimate for feeding ground for gastropod growth and development leading to more diversity. The global w…
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