Assessment of Atlantic Red Drum for 1999: Northern and southern regions

An assessment of the status of the Atlantic stock of red drum is conducted using recreational and commercial data from 1986 through 1998. This assessment updates data and analyses from the 1989, 1991, 1992 and 1995 stock assessments on Atlantic coast red drum (Vaughan and Helser, 1990; Vaughan 1992; 1993; 1996). Since 1981, coastwide recreational catches ranged between 762,300 pounds in 1980 and 2,623,900 pounds in 1984, while commercial landings ranged between 60,900 pounds in 1997 and 422,500 pounds in 1984. In weight of fish caught, Atlantic red drum constitute predominantly a recreational fishery (ranging between 85 and 95% during the 1990s). Commercially, red drum continue to be harvested as part of mixed species fisheries. Using available length-frequency distributions and age-length keys, recreational and commercial catches are converted to catch in numbers at age. Separable and tuned virtual population analyses are conducted on the catch in numbers at age to obtain estimates of fishing mortality rates and population size (including recruitment to age 1). In tum, these estimates of fishing mortality rates combined with estimates of growth (length and weight), sex ratios, sexual maturity and fecundity are used to estimate yield per recruit, escapement to age 4, and static (or equilibrium) spawning potential ratio (static SPR, based on both female biomass and egg production). Three virtual analysis approaches (separable, spreadsheet, and FADAPT) were applied to catch matrices for two time periods (early: 1986-1991, and late: 1992-1998) and two regions (Northern: North Carolina and north, and Southern: South Carolina through east coast of Florida). Additional catch matrices were developed based on different treatments for the catch-and-release recreationally-caught red drum (B2-type). These approaches included assuming 0% mortality (BASEO) versus 10% mortality for B2 fish. For the 10% mortality on B2 fish, sizes were assumed the same as caught fish (BASEl), or positive difference in size distribution between the early period and the later period (DELTA), or intermediate (PROP). Hence, a total of 8 catch matrices were developed (2 regions, and 4 B2 assumptions for 1986-1998) to which the three VPA approaches were applied. The question of when offshore emigration or reduced availability begins (during or after age 3) continues to be a source of bias that tends to result in overestimates of fishing mortality. Additionally, the continued assumption (Vaughan and Helser, 1990; Vaughan 1992; 1993; 1996) of no fishing mortality on adults (ages 6 and older), causes a bias that results in underestimates of fishing mortality for adult ages (0 versus some positive value). Because of emigration and the effect of the slot limit for the later period, a range in relative exploitations of age 3 to age 2 red drum was considered. Tuning indices were developed from the MRFSS, and state indices for use in the spreadsheet and FADAPT VPAs. The SAFMC Red Drum Assessment Group (Appendix A) favored the FADAPT approach with catch matrix based on DELTA and a selectivity for age 3 relative to age 2 of 0.70 for the northern region and 0.87 for the southern region. In the northern region, estimates of static SPR increased from about 1.3% for the period 1987-1991 to approximately 18% (15% and 20%) for the period 1992-1998. For the southern region, estimates of static SPR increased from about 0.5% for the period 1988-1991 to approximately 15% for the period 1992-1998. Population models used in this assessment (specifically yield per recruit and static spawning potential ratio) are based on equilibrium assumptions: because no direct estimates are available as to the current status of the adult stock, model results imply potential longer term, equilibrium effects. Because current status of the adult stock is unknown, a specific rebuilding schedule cannot be determined. However, the duration of a rebuilding schedule should reflect, in part, a measure of the generation time of the fish species under consideration. For a long-lived, but relatively early spawning, species as red drum, mean generation time would be on the order of 15 to 20 years based on age-specific egg production. Maximum age is 50 to 60 years for the northern region, and about 40 years for the southern region. The ASMFC Red Drum Board's first phase recovery goal of increasing %SPR to at least 10% appears to have been met. (PDF contains 79 pages)

Coleção das Leis da República Federativa do Brasil de 1999

Volume 191 n.1

Workshop on marine mammal research & monitoring in the National Marine Sanctuaries, Wailea, Maui, Hawaii, 28 November 1999

The Second National Workshop on Marine Mammal Research and Monitoring in the National Marine Sanctuaries was held on 28 November 1999 in Maui, Hawaii. The workshop preceded the Thirteenth Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, and provided an opportunity to review and promote marine mammal research and monitoring in the National Marine Sanctuaries (NMS). The purpose of the workshop was to bring together researchers and sanctuary staff and to improve marine mammal research and monitoring throughout the sanctuaries. Discussion topics included: potential multi-sanctuary projects, sources of funding for multi-sanctuary projects, services and equipment for researchers through the sanctuaries, consolidating small levels of funding, help in funding and support for writing up data, publishing documents in Technical Memoranda, and letters of support. Representatives from the NMS national office and nine sanctuaries provided participants with overviews of marine mammal research within the sanctuaries. Presentations were also given by representatives from the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Permits and Health and Stranding programs. During the breakout working groups, there were several comments and suggestions consistent among each of the groups to improve marine mammal research. Each group emphasized the need to improve communication among researchers and to better share data. These suggestions included web-based information networks, advisory panels, and workshops. Regionally based research projects were also emphasized. In order to best study marine mammal populations, collaborative studies must take place throughout multiple sanctuaries. In order to achieve these large scale studies, funding and staffing must be directed towards these studies and distributed among each of the sanctuaries so that they may all be able to have the staffing, equipment, and vessels necessary to achieve a collaborative, ecosystem-based, regional marine mammal monitoring program. It will take several years to achieve all of the suggestions from the workshop, but thanks to the workshop participants, the National Marine Sanctuary Program has begun to direct marine mammal research and monitoring in order to achieve the goals of the workshop. This document provides a summary of the workshop with a focus on key points/main issues. We have included contact information intended to encourage continued collaboration among the individuals and organizations represented at the 1999 Marine Mammal Research and Monitoring in the National Marine Sanctuaries Workshop. (PDF contains 71 pages.)

Impacto Orçamentário da PEC 57/1999

Consultoria de Orçamento e Fiscalização Financeira. Núcleo Integração Nacional

Anuario Estadistico de Pesca 1999

This document is in Spanish. El capítulo 1 concentra información sobre los volúmenes de producción obtenidos en la fase primaria de la actividad (captura y acuacultura). Las variables manejadas son: producción por principales especies, destino de consumo, litoral y entidad federativa, acuacultura, así como el valor de lo explotado o cultivado a precios de productor (precio en playa); al final se incorpora un conjunto de cuadros con series históricas de producción, desglosadas por principales pesquerías, litorales y entidades. En el capítulo 2 se presentan estadísticas sobre la transformación o industrialización de productos pesqueros. Sus 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 (elaboración de harina de pescado y aceites) y otros procesos. El capítulo 3 contiene las estadísticas sobre la fase de la comercialización y consumo de los productos provenientes de la pesca: disponibilidad, consumo (aparente y per-cápita), precios y balanza comercial pesquera, incluyendo series históricas sobre estos mismos indicadores. Enseguida, en el capítulo 4, se· da a conocer información acerca de los principales activos disponibles en el sector, esto es, flota, planta industrial, instalaciones portuarias, granjas acuícolas comerciales y centros de acuacultura. De igual manera, aparecen las cifras de los empleos generados por la actividad, las organizaciones sociales pesqueras y su membresía, como también los créditos otorgados al sector por la banca de desarrollo. El capítulo 5 resume información sobre las Normas Oficiales Mexicanas (NOM) vigentes y proyectos de I'JOM que conciernen a la actividad pesquera, así como de las vedas que se aplican en las diferentes pesquerías. En el capítulo 6 se hace un compendio de las principales variables de la actividad pesquera mundial, en el que se puede apreciar la destacada participación de México. La estructura del Anuario concluye con la presentación del anexo, que- comprende el glosario de términos, la lista de las especies que integran cada una de las pesquerías para las cuales se presenta información desagregada y, por primera vez, se presentan cuadros sinópticos a manera de indicadores, sobre las principales variables de la pesca mexicana, de las pesquerías más importantes, al igual que las fases y especies con mayor participación relativa en la pesca mundial. (Catch statistics for Mexican waters 1999. (PDF has 249 pages.)

Notas sobre los efectos de calificación del despido: especial consideración de los salarios de tramitación tras la ley 45/2002

En este artículo se habla sobre la regulación del despido que se configura como la herramienta que ofrece los mejores resultados para la compresión del derecho del trabajo y su evolución. En efecto, la regulación del despido se ha modificado frecuentemente de manera puntual, aunque no siempre de forma radical: adaptándose siempre a las necesidades de la empresa o del mercado de trabajo. Reduciendo, por un lado, los costes empresariales de despido y, por otro, la litigiosidad; en definitiva, la reducción de los costes de transacción y litigación en caso de despido.

Deputados brasileiros : repertório biográfico : 50ª legislatura, 1995-1999

Reúne as informações pessoais e sobre a vida profissional e política dos deputados eleitos no pleito de outubro de 1994, no momento inicial da 50ª Legislatura, tendo por objetivo constituir-se em importante fonte de pesquisa e de preservação da memória da Câmara dos Deputados.

Diário da Constituinte [gravação de vídeo] : [programa n. 550]

Uma Sessão Solene do Congresso Nacional vai lembrar o 13 de maio, o dia em que foi abolida a escravidão no Brasil. O presidente Ulysses Guimarães, convida os constituintes para a solenidade e afirma que a data representa um marco da luta sincera contra a discriminação e em prol da fraternidade. Será amanhã a votação da Reforma Agrária. A emenda apresentada pelo relator Bernardo Cabral seguiu as sugestões já feitas pelos constituintes que buscavam um acordo. No texto, o relator vai manter a propriedade produtiva como passível de desapropriação. Além da texto do relator, foi apresentada uma outra emenda. É uma emenda coletiva patrocinada pelo Líder do PMDB, Mário Covas. O texto é praticamente o mesmo do relator e afirma que haverá um escalonamento antes que se faça a desapropriação. O Centrão, que não apresentou emenda coletiva, está entregando dois destaques, um para a emenda Cabral e outro para emenda Covas. O que o Centrão quer é retirar dos dois textos a parte onde se afirma que a desapropriação se fará com títulos da dívida pública. Os partidos pequenos, em geral, vão votar com o relator, mas já preparam destaques para alguns pontos. São destaques que definem os tamanhos das propriedade. Há também destaques individuais que tem por objetivo impedir a posse da terra por estrangeiros.

Control of bacterial disease in small scale fresh-water aquaculture: Project R0754. Project completion report December 1998 - May 1999

The work presented here represents an 18-month study to examine the relationship between environmental conditions, bacterial load in the water and bacteria levels in tissue macrophages of a range of clinically healthy freshwater fish species, farmed in a range of culture systems in Thailand and Vietnam. Preliminary assessment was made of the clinical significance of the macrophage bacterial load. The aim of this work was to improve production in fresh-water aquaculture through the control of clinical bacterial disease and subclinical infection, and to identify management practices most effective in promoting fish health. [PDF contains 37 pages]

El dibujo y la ilustración como actores en la comunicación social impresa: análisis del proceso de comunicación de las ilustraciones dibujadas, percibidas como textos visuales en el proceso de la comunicación social escrita en periódicos y revistas portuguesas en los años 1999 y 2000

348 p.: gráf. Nota: tesis impresa en español y portugués, defendida en ambos idiomas

Marco civil brasileño : en español : Ley n°. 12.965, de 23 de abril de 2014, que estabelece los principios, garantías, derechos y deberes para el uso de la Internet en Brasil

Lei n. 12.965, de 23 de abril de 2014, que estabelece princípios, garantias, direitos e deveres para o uso da internet no Brasil.

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