Mersey and Weaver Fisheries Advisory Committee 11th April, 1979

This is the report from the Mersey and Weaver Fisheries Advisory Committee meeting, which was held on the 11th April, 1979. It includes the report by the area fisheries officer on fisheries activities which comments on river conditions and fishing, and an update on Hollingworth hatchery giving numbers of rainbow and brown trout being developed, and Great Sankey giving an update on coarse fish rearing. It also gives stocking numbers of coarse and non migratory fish by angling assoications, fisheries management and pollution incidents. The Fisheries Advisory Committee was part of the Regional Water Authorities, in this case the North West Water Authority. This preceded the Environment Agency which came into existence in 1996.

Mersey & Weaver Fisheries Advisory Committee 18th June, 1980

This is the report from the Mersey and Weaver Fisheries Advisory Committee meeting, which was held on the 18th June, 1980. It includes information on the report by the area fisheries officer on fisheries activities which comments on river conditions and fishing, pollution incidents, fish mortalities and an update on Hollingworth Hatchery including the numbers of rainbow and brown trout being held at the hatchery in April 1980. It also gives a list of stocking numbers of brown trout, rainbow trout and coarse fish which includes the size of the fish, the source from which they came from, the date and the receiving water. The Fisheries Advisory Committee was part of the Regional Water Authorities, in this case the North West Water Authority. This preceded the Environment Agency which came into existence in 1996.

Mersey & Weaver Fisheries Advisory Committee 24th October, 1979.

This is the report from the Mersey and Weaver Fisheries Advisory Committee meeting, which was held on the 24th October 1979. The report contains the minutes of the last meeting along with the minutes of the Regional Fisheries Advisory Committee meeting held on 12th July 1979, and a proposal for an increase in the bailiffing staff. It also includes the report by the area fisheries officer which looks at river conditions and fishing, an update on Hollingworth and Pilot Hatchery (Great Sankey), stocking or restocking by Angling Associations and the Authority, pollution incidents and fish mortalities. The Fisheries Advisory Committee was part of the Regional Water Authorities, in this case the North West Water Authority. This preceded the Environment Agency which came into existence in 1996.

Mersey & Weaver Fisheries Advisory Committee 16th January, 1980.

This is the report from the Mersey and Weaver Fisheries Advisory Committee meeting, which was held on the 16th January 1980. The report contains sections on the minutes of the meeting held on the 24th October 1979, the EEC Directive on the quality of freshwaters and terminated angling leases. It also covers the report by the area fisheries officer which looks at river conditions and fishing, Hollingworth and Pilot hatcheries, stocking carried out by Angling Associations and the Authority and mortalities. The Fisheries Advisory Committee was part of the Regional Water Authorities, in this case the North West Water Authority. This preceded the Environment Agency which came into existence in 1996.

Mersey & Weaver Fisheries Advisory Committee 9th April, 1980.

This is the report from the Mersey and Weaver Fisheries Advisory Committee meeting, which was held on the 9th April 1980. The report contains minutes of previous meetings, rod and line licence duties, the future programme for trout fisheries in the Bolton area and Commonbank Lakes. It also includes the report by the area fisheries officer which looks at river conditions and fishing, Hollingworth and Pilot Hatcheries, Worthington Stock Ponds, and stockings carried out by the Authority and Angling Associations. The Fisheries Advisory Committee was part of the Regional Water Authorities, in this case the North West Water Authority. This preceded the Environment Agency which came into existence in 1996.

Online Discussions Replacing Tutorials for Large Cohorts - Melanie Ashleigh

This is one of a series of short case studies describing how academic tutors at the University of Southampton have made use of learning technologies to support their students.

Parallel editing, multi-positionality and maximalism: cosmopolitan effects as explored in some art works by Melanie Jackson and Vivienne Dick

Garfield produces a critique of neo-minimalist art practice by demonstrating how the artist Melanie Jackson’s Some things you are not allowed to send around the world (2003 and 2006) and the experimental film-maker Vivienne Dick’s Liberty’s booty (1980) – neither of which can be said to be about feeling ‘at home’ in the world, be it as a resident or as a nomad – examine global humanity through multi-positionality, excess and contingency, and thereby begin to articulate a new cosmopolitan relationship with the local – or, rather, with many different localities – in one and the same maximalist sweep of the work. ‘Maximalism’ in Garfield’s coinage signifies an excessive overloading (through editing, collage, and the sheer density of the range of the material) that enables the viewer to insert themselves into the narrative of the work. In the art of both Jackson and Dick Garfield detects a refusal to know or to judge the world; instead, there is an attempt to incorporate the complexities of its full range into the singular vision of the work, challenging the viewer to identify what is at stake.

The venomous secrets of the web droplets from the viscid spiral of the orb-weaver spider Nephila clavipes (Araneae, Tetragnatidae)

The capture web of N. clavipes presents viscous droplets, which play important roles in web mechanics and prey capture. By using scanning and transmission electron microscopy, it was demonstrated that the web droplets are constituted of different chemical environments, provided by the existence both of an aqueous and a lipid layer, which, in turn, present a suspension of tenths of vesicles containing polypeptides and/or tipids. GC/EI-MS Analysis of the contents of these vesicles led to the identification of some saturated fatty acids, such as decanoic acid, undecanoic acid, dodecanoic acid, tetradecanoic acid, octadecanoic acid, and icosanoic acid, while other components were unsaturated fatty acids, such as (Z)-tetradec-9-enoic acid, (Z)-octadec-9-enoic acid, and (Z)-icosa-11-enoic acid; and polyunsaturated fatty acids like (9Z,12Z)-octadeca-9,12-dienoic acid, (9Z,12Z,15Z)-octadeca-9,12,15-trienoic acid, and (11Z,14Z)-icosa-11,14-dienoic acid. Toxic proteins such as calcium-activated proteinase and metalloproteinase jararhagin-like precursor were also identified by using a proteomic approach, indicating the possible involvement of these enzymes in the pre-digestion of spiders' preys web-captured. Apparently, the mixture of fatty acids are relatively toxic to insects by topical application (LD50 64.3 +/- 7.6 ng mg(-1) honeybee), while the proteins alone present no topical effect; however, when injected into the prey-insects, these proteins presented a moderate toxicity (LD50 40.3 +/- 4.8 ng mg(-1) honeybee); the mixture of fatty acids and proteins is very toxic to the preys captured by the web droplets of the viscid spiral of Nephila clavipes when topically applied on them (LD50 14.3 +/- 1.8ng mg(-1) honeybee).

Post-Embryonic Development of Larvae of the Weaver Ant Camponotus textor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Description of the Immatures of Workers of the Weaver Ant, Camponotus textor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Mantispa minuta Fabricius (Neuroptera : Mantispidae) on egg sacs of the orb-weaver spider Parawixia bistriata (Araneidae) in forests of Eucalyptus grandis in Brazil

This is the first report of the interaction between the two entomophagous agents Mantispa minuta Fabricius (Mantispidae) and Parawixia bistriata Rengger, an orb-weaver spider (Araneidae). From egg sacs kept in the laboratory we observed the emergence of adult neuropterans followed by the emergence of a high number of spiderlings. This association illustrates the interactions among the invertebrate predators coexisting in Eucalyptus plantations managed without chemical treatment, in the State of São Paulo, Brazil.