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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…
Lihong He, Feng Li, Junyong Tang
Freeze drying is reported to be the best method of dehydration. Live fresh Chinese mitten crabs ( Eriocheir sinensis ) were freeze dried. The moisture content, rehydration ratio, and fatty acid composition of freeze-dried crabs were analysed. The applicabilit…
Luís Antonio Salcido-Guevara, Pablo del Monte-Luna, Francisco Arreguín-Sánchez, Víctor Hugo Cruz-Escalona
The shrimp trawling fishery is the most important one in Mexico in value terms and given its putative environmental, societal and economical implications, it is also the most difficult to manage. Although this fishery was restricted from national bays and est…
Svein Helge Gjøsund
Trawls and plankton nets are basically made up of conical and cylindrical net sections. In conical sections the flow will pass through the inclined net wall with a noticeable angle of attack, and then the flow, filtration and drag can be suitably modelled e.g…
Ahmed M. Hellal
A taxonomic study on the crinoids (feather stars) collected from 34 sites from the Red Sea coasts and islands as well as the Suez Canal was done during the period from 1992 to 2003. A total of 15 species are now known from the Red Sea belonging to eleven gene…
Glejin Johnson, V. Sanil Kumar, Sajiv Philip Chempalayil, Jai Singh, Premanand Pednekar, K. Ashok Kumar, G. Udhaba Dora, Rajamanickam Gowthaman
A study was carried out to find the variation in wave characteristics along the eastern Arabian Sea and the influence of swells in the nearshore waves at 3 locations during summer monsoon in 2010. Percentage of swells in the measured waves was 75% to 79% at t…
Paul D. van Ruth, Jian G. Qin, Alan J. Branford
Size dependent competition was examined in two marine centric diatoms, Coscinodiscus sp. and Thalassiosira rotula at various, and Si concentrations. The growth responses for both species to nutrient levels were evaluated using two forms of nitrogen (NH4 and N…
José Juan Barrera-Alba, Gleyci Aparecida Oliveira Moser, Sônia Maria Flores Gianesella, Marisa Prado Saldanha-Corrêa
Transparent Exopolymer Particles (TEP) has a known crucial role in vertical fluxes of carbon in the ocean and has been intensively studied in the last decade. Nevertheless, few studies have considered horizontal fluxes of TEP. These fluxes arise prominently b…
Thorvaldur Gunnlaugsson
Estimation of parameters and random effects using true maximum likelihood methods is compared to the commonly used penalized maximum likelihood method. The simulated catch-at-age datasets have all conceivable noise in stock and fishing dynamics in addition to…
Juan Madrid-Vera, Darío Chávez Herrera, Juan Melchor Aragón, Ricardo Meraz-Sánchez, José Alberto Rodríguez-Preciado
Samples taken during the closed fishing seasons from 1992 to 2010 were analyzed at sea. These data along with the landing records for the fishing periods from 1992-1993 to 2009-2010 were used to allow the situation of Litopenaeus van-namei from the coasts of…
José Alberto Rodríguez-Preciado, Juan Madrid-Vera, Ricardo Meraz-Sánchez
A population analysis was made using data of the grunt Pomadasys panamensis. The information is from the catch from 260 hauls in estuarine waters, open-ocean waters, and off the coast of Sinaloa and northern Nayarit, Mexico, in the southeastern Gulf of Califo…
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