PICES Press, Vol. 2, No. 1, January 1994

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Annual report 1994 - North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES). Third meeting, Nemuro, Hokkaido, Japan, October 15-24, 1994

Report of Opening Session Report of Governing Council Meetings Reports of Science Board and Committees: Science Board Biological Oceanography Committee Fishery Science Committee Marine Environmental Quality Committee Physical Oceanography and Climate Committee Reports of Workshops Report of PICES-GLOBEC Workshop (Summary) PICES-GLOBEC Science Plan Findings and Recommendations of the PICES-STA Workshop on Monitoring in the Subarctic North Pacific Finance and Administration: Report of the Finance and Administration Committee Assets on 31st of December, 1993 Income and Expenditures for 1993 Budget for 1995 Composition of the Organization List of Participants (Document has 95 pages.)

Soundings: the Newsletter of the Monterey Bay Chapter of the American Cetacean Society. 1994

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Interactions between adult migratory striped bass (Morone saxatilis) and their prey during winter off the Virginia and North Carolina Atlantic coast from 1994 through 2007

The migratory population of striped bass (Morone saxatilis) (>400 mm total length[TL]) spends winter in the Atlantic Ocean off the Virginia and North Carolina coasts of the United States. Information on trophic dynamics for these large adults during winter is limited. Feeding habits and prey were described from stomach contents of 1154 striped bass ranging from 373 to 1250 mm TL, collected from trawls during winters of 1994-96, 2000, and 2002-03, and from the recreational fishery during 2005-07. Nineteen prey species were present in the diet. Overall, Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) and bay anchovy (Anchoa mitchilli) dominated the diet by boimass (67.9%) and numerically (68.6%). The percent biomass of Atlantic menhaden during 1994-2003 to 87.0% during 2005-07. Demersal fish species such as Atlantic croaker (Micropogonias undulatus) and spot (Leiostomus xanthurus) represented <15% of the diet biomass, whereas alosines (Alosa spp.) were rarely observed. Invertebrates were least important, contributing <1.0% by biomass and numerically. Striped bass are capable of feeding on a wide range of prey sizes (2% to 43% of their total length). This study outlines the importance of clupeoid fishes to striped bass winter production and also shows that predation may be exerting pressure on one of their dominant prey, the Atlantic menhaden.

Biology and fisheries of swordfish, Xiphias gladius: Papers from the International Symposium on Pacific Swordfish, Ensenada, Mexico, 11-14 December 1994

The swordfish, Xiphias gladius, is a large migratory oceanic species. It is widely distributed in tropical, temperate, and sometimes cold waters of all oceans, and is usually found in areas with sea-surface temperatures above 13°C. It can reach a maximum size of 540 kg, and is a favorite food fish in many countries. It is excellent for steaks, canning, or teriyaki, the Japanese dish of meat grilled with sugar, soy sauce, and rice wine. Swordfish is harvested commercially throughout its distribution, in both coastal and high-seas fisheries. Sport fisheries for swordfish are very small compared to those for other billfishes, accounting for no more than a few hundred fish per year. (PDF file contains 284 pages.)

Anuario Estadistico de Pesca 1994

This document is in Spanish. El capítulo 1concentra información sobre los volúmenes de producción obtenidos en la fase primaria de la actividad ( capturas y acuacuItura). Las principales variables manejadas son: producción por principales especies, por tipos de consumo, por litoral y por entidad federativa, así como su valor a precios de playa, incorporando al final un conjunto de cuadros con series históricas de producción. En el capitulo JI se presentan estadísticas sobre la transformación o industrialización en productos pesqueros. Los indicadores más representativos se refieren a materia prima procesada y producción obtenida, desagregándola por entidad federativa y principales líneas de producción, es decir, congelado, enlatado, reducción ( fabricación de harina de pescado y aceites) y otros procesos. El capítulo In contiene las estadísticas sobre la fase de la comercialización y consumo de los productos provenientes de la pesca: disponibilidad, consumos (aparente y per-cápita), precios y balanza comercial pesquera, incluyendo con series históricas sobre estos mismos indicadores. Enseguida --capítulo IV-, se da a conocer información acerca de los principales activos disponibles en el sector, esto es, sobre la flota, la planta industrial, astilleros, instalaciones portuarias y centros de acuacuItura. Asimismo, aparecen cifras de los empleos generados por la actividad y de los créditos otorgados al sector por la banca de desarrollo. Finalmente, en el capítulo V se hace un compendio de las principales variables de la actividad pesquera mundial, en el que se puede apreciar la participación de México en la pesca mundial. Catch statistics for Mexican waters 1994. (PDF has 100 pages.)

Seasonal water quality monitoring in the Klamath River estuary, 1991-1994

The California Department of Fish and Game's Natural Stocks Assessment Project (NSAP) collected water quality data at high tides on a monthly basis from February 1991 to October 1994, and during low tides from March 1992 to June 1994 in the Klamath River estuary to describe water quality conditions. NSAP collected data on water temperature, dissolved oxygen, salinity, depth of saltwedge, and Klamath River flow. Klamath River flows ranged from 44.5 cubic meters per second (1570 cfs) in August 1994 to 3832.2 cubic meters per second (135,315 cfs) in March 1993. Saltwater was present in the estuary primarily in the summer and early fall and generally extended 2 to 3 miles upstream. Surface water temperatures ranged from 6-8° C in the winter to 20-24° C in the summer. Summer water temperatures within the saltwedge were generally 5 to 8° C cooler than the surface water temperature. Dissolved oxygen in the estuary was generally greater than 6 to 7 ppm year-round. A sand berm formed at the mouth of the river each year in the late summer or early fall which raised the water level in the estuary and reduced tidal fluctuation so that the Klamath estuary became essentially a lagoon. I hypothesize the formation of the sand berm may increase the production of the estuary and help provide favorable conditions for rearing juvenile chinook salmon.

Radioaktivität in Fischen und anderen Meerestieren aus der Nordsee. Auswirkung der 1994 geänderten Genehmigung für Sellafield auf die Strahlenexposition der Bevölkerung

A subject of a change of authorised limits in 1994 for the discharge of liquid radioactive waste by the reprocessing plant Sellafield (UK) was an increase of these limits for certain radionuclides (3H, 14C, 60Co, 99Tc and 129I). It is investigated now how the radioactivity in marine biota from the North Sea and subsequently the public radiation exposure by ingestion has developed in the years since 1994. This is based on a compartment model for the Northeast Atlantic. Discharges of the reprocessing plants Dounreay (UK) and La Hague (F) are included in the assessment. It is deduced that about 60 % of 137Cs in the North Sea originate presently in the remobilisation of old Sellafield discharges from the Irish Sea sediment. A comparison with measured biota data shows that the model is conservative in the most cases. The public radiation exposure from ingestion of fish, crustaceans and molluscs from the central North Sea as the sum over 12 considered radionuclides has decreased from 1992 to 1998 from 0,13 to 0,08 μSv·y–1. For the southward and northward joined regions it was a little bit smaller with a similar decreasing trend.

Fisheries statistics of Kainji Lake, northern Nigeria, Nov. 1994 - Dec. 1998

Results are presented for the first 4 years data (1994-1998) of the Kainji Lake catch assessment survey, collected and analysed by the Nigerian-German Kainji Lake Fisheries Promotion Project. The following areas are covered: Methodology and alterations of the original sampling concept; Frame survey results - factors relating to the CAS; Catch assessment survey results - general; Gill net fishery; Drift net fishery; Beach seine fishery; Cast net fishery; Longline fishery; Trap fishery; and, Catch statistics from fisherwomen. (PDF contains 143 pages)

Oceanographic Profiling Observations from the MOBY-L7 Cruise: 25 to 30 June 1994

This report contains CTD profiling results from the seventh cruise to the Marine Optics Buoy (MOBY) site near the Island of Lanai. Data presented here were obtained on the University of Hawaii Research Vessel Moana Wave between 26 and 30 June 1994. Two types of data are reported: vertical profile observations of salinity, temperature beam attenuation and chlorophyll-a fluorescence, profiles; and total suspended matter and suspended organic carbon and nitrogen taken from water samplers at those stations.

Oceanographic Profiling Observations from the MOCE-3 Cruise: 27 October to 15 November 1994

This report contains results from the third cruise of the Marine Optical Characterization Experiment (Fig. 1). A variety of spectroradiometric observations of the upper water column and atmosphere were made by investigators from the University of Miami, NOAA, CHORS and MLML. Data presented here were obtained by oceanographic CTD profiler: salinity, temperatllre, dissolved oxygen, beam attenuation and chlorophyll-a fluorescence; and by water samplers: total suspended matter and suspended organic carbon and nitrogen, salinity, and dissolved oxygen.

Die biologischen Voraussetzungen für einen guten Dorschnachwuchs verbesserten sich 1994 in der westlichen Ostsee

The investigations on the fecundity of cod from different areas of the Baltic Sea started in 1992. The samples were collected in ICES Sub-divisions 25 (Bornholm Sea). 24 (Arkona Sea) and 22 (Mecklenburg and Kiel Bay). This article surnmarizes the results of 435 analysed gonads from females of age groups 1 to 8 with total length of 24 - 116 cm of the years 1992 to 1995. The gonads were prepared and analysed according to the methods which were deseribed in Bleil and Oeberst (1993). The aim of the investigations is to estimate the reproduction potential of cod for different areas and years. For this reason the absolute and relative fecundity were analysed for estimating the dependence on the total length, for age groups and the weight of females. These data were estimated for the populations Gadus morhua morhua and Gadus morhua callarias. Preliminary results have shown that the absolute fecundity (fabs) is dependent on whole weight of the females. The influence of sub-divisions (SD) and years to the fecundity are very low. Additional to this data was calculated the population fecundity for the western Baltic Sea stock (SD 22 and 24). The numbers of produced ripe eggs within the western Baltic were estimated with 4055.59 x 10(9) for 1993 and 6949.85 x 10(9) for 1994.

Deutsche Rotbarschfischerei im NW-Atlantik (Reykjanes Rücken - Irminger See - Ostgrönlandschelf) in den Jahren 1993 und 1994 und ihre möglichen Zukunftsaussichten

Die Rotbarschfänge der deutschen Hochseefischerei in der Irminger See (ICES Gebiet XII und XIV) weisen in den beiden letzten Jahren, verglichen mit anderen kommerziellen Arten ( z.B. Kabeljau) hohe Steigerungsraten auf. Sie sind einerseits durch die Wiedervereinigung (Eingliederung der damaligen Rostocker Hochseefischerei in die BRD-Flotte), anderseits durch Fangsteigerungen der DFFU (Deutsche Fisch-Fang-Union) auf den historischen Fanggründen des Ostgrönlandschelf bedingt. Über diese Fischereien, sowie über ihre Zukunftsaussichten, soll im Folgenden berichtet werden.