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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…
Qiuyang Li, Liang Sun, Chi Xu
The relationship of lateral eddy viscosity depending on length scale is estimated with the decay rate of mesoscale eddies identified from sea level anomaly of satellite observations. The eddy viscosity is expressed in terms of the mesoscale eddy parameters ac…
Miku Watanabe, Hiromi Kakizaki, Momo Kanai, Satoshi Kawashima, Kaneyuki Hamaguchi, Hiroki Mizuno, Tsubasa Ueno, Chiaki Yasukawa, Ryuji Agata, Mana Ikeda, Hideto Fukushima, Mitsuhiro Ueda, Masahiro Matsumiya
We have previously reported the presence of three types of chitinase (acidic fish chitinase-1: AFCase-1, acidic fish chitinase-2: AFCase-2, fish chitinase-3: FCase-3) in Actinopterygii. In the present research, we report the identification of the novel chitin…
Samson Nitonye, Ofanson Uyi
Ports and jetties complex operations come with various forms of pollutions. The analysis of marine pollution from ports becomes very necessary and complicated due to the various types of pollution, sources, effects and different characteristics. The sources o…
Marijke Nita de Boer, 1 1, Duncan Jones, Hannah Jones, Rebecca Knee
The protection of marine megafauna within Europe is rather fragmented. Developing conservation measures for highly mobile species presents definite challenges, particularly due to the many knowledge gaps. Recent studies have shown that these gaps can be fille…
Ebtesam A. Yousef
A total 5849 individuals of ostracods constituting twenty species were collected from five shallow marine sites along the area from El-Quseir to Marsa Alam on the West Coast of the Red Sea. The twenty ostracod species belonging to sixteen genera and ten diffe…
Nardi Cribb, Phyll Bartram, Tony Bartram, Laurent Seuront
Limited information still exists on the movements of bottlenose dolphins in South Australian coastal waters. There is, however, a need to overcome this paucity of information for an effective development and implementation of conservation and management initi…
Stella P. Betancur-Turizo, Adriana G. González-Silvera, Eduardo Santamaría-Del-Ángel, Roberto Millán-Núñez, Eduardo Millán-Núñez, Héctor García-Nava, Víctor M. Godínez, Laura Sánchez-Velasco
Variability of the optical properties of the northern Gulf of California (México) were analyzed for the first time based on six cruises performed from spring to summer (March to September) between 2008 and 2013. The changes observed in the absorption by three…
Fang Sing Ong, Julian Ransangan
Study was conducted with the aim to understand the temporal and spatial variations of water quality parameters (temperature, salinity, pH, DO, TSS, NO 3 - , NO 2 - , NH 3 -N and PO 4 -P, and phytoplankton cell density) in Ambong Bay, Sabah, Malaysia in order…
Pedro Cervantes- Hernández, Pablo Torres- Hernández, Mario Alejandro Gómez- Ponce
At present, the fishery of Litopenaeus vannamei continues overexploited in the Gulf of Tehuantepec (GT), Mexico. From the available literature it was demonstrated that marine closure systems implemented in GT have not worked adequately since 1993, because the…
Delta Jenetty Denil, Ching Fui Fui, Julian Ransangan
Concern over health risk from consumption of bivalves originating from Marudu Bay is escalating due to the rapid agricultural development surrounding the bay. This has motivated us to estimate the health risk index (HRI) of heavy metals from four commercially…
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