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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…
Njomoue Pandong Achille, Ebeku Ngomo Christopher, Tcham Leopold
Over the past few decades, it has become widely recognized that the management strategies of world fisheries must ensure sustainability of target species. The intervening years have seen many improvements to the concept of gear se lectivity and methods for me…
Jamal Algraeo, Samir Bouaziz
Waves are the most important phenomena affecting marine navigation, either in the field of fishing , military or transporting of goods. This paper tries to answer the following important questions: What are the causes and types of waves in the coast of Zuarac…
Antonio Fernando Menezes Freire, Marcelo Costa Monteiro
The ratio of total organic carbon to total nitrogen (TOC:TN) and the stable carbon isotope ratio of organic matter ( δ 13 C org ) are widely applied for inferring the origin of organic matter (OM) in Quaternary marine sediments. A plot of TOC:TN vs. δ 13 C or…
José Otilio Avendaño-Alvarez, Horacio Pérez-España, David Salas-Monreal, Emiliano García-Rodríguez
During July to November of 2008, the artisanal fisheries captured juvenile sharks belonging to the Carcharhinus and Sphyrnidae family in the Veracruz Reef System (south western Gulf of Mexico). The three most abundant organisms were of the species Sphyrna lew…
Judith Gobin, John Agard, Janette Madera, Azad Mohammed
Invasive species are often characterised by the introduction of low numbers of individuals and a small genetic pool which could give rise to a population with a lower genetic diversity than the original population. Perna viridis was first reported on the west…
Robert Kearney
Seafood plays an important role in human nutrition and its increased consumption is actively recommended for sustenance and health benefits in both developing and developed countries. In parallel to this, the public receives confusing advice as to what seafoo…
Yasutaka Hirokawa, Satoru Matsuzuka, Sho Itayama, Tatsuya Uchida, Shoko Fujiwara, Noriaki Ozaki, Hiromichi Nagasawa, Mikio Tsuzuki
The coccolithophorids have calcified scales called coccoliths on their surface that include abundant acid polysaccharides. To determine the localization and associative strength of acid polysaccharides Ph-PS-1, -2, and -3 incoccoliths of Pleurochrysis haptone…
Ricardo Meraz-Sánchez, Juan Madrid-Vera, Miguel Ángel Cisneros-Mata, Darío Chávez Herrera
The brown shrimp, Farfantepenaeus californiensis , is the most important shrimp species in the Mexican Pacific coastal fisheries, with annual yields averaging 20,000 metric tons. The Mexican state of Sinaloa has the largest Mexican fleet of shrimp trawlers (7…
Ana Maria Costa
Weight/length relationships, condition factor, gonadosomatic and hepatosomatic indices, conversion factor for gutted to total weight and spawning season of hake in the Portuguese Coast (36.92 to 42.22 degrees latitude N; 9.61 to 6.07 degrees longitude W) were…
Stéphane Pous, Xavier Carton, Pascal Lazure
A shallow-water model, coupled with a three dimensional, hydrostatic ocean model, is used to study the wind induced circulation, and the Shatt-al-Arab river plume expansion, in the Persian Gulf. The models are used in an idealized configuration. The following…
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