This chapter reviews advances made in the study of the structure and dynamics of scallop populations and in the development of new approaches for the assessment and management of exploited scallop stocks. Significant ...

Social capital has been a key factor for co-management initiatives' success in small-scale fisheries. Nonetheless, this is a complex concept, which can be operationalized in different ways and has no specific standardized ...

The management of natural resources is highly demanding of scientific support and, therefore, applied scientists often become involved in the management process, whether as providers of technical advice for decision-making ...

This chapter discusses the dynamics, assessment, and management of exploited natural populations. All scallop stocks are structured as “metapopulations” in which subpopulations of sedentary post-larval individuals are ...

The Pacific Calico scallop, Argopecten ventricosus (Sowerby), is the most important commercial species in Bahia Concepcion. Catches declined steadily from 1991 to 1993 as a result of overexploitation, forcing the adoption ...

The population genetic structure and oceanographic boundaries to gene flow are relevant for understanding biological connectivity in marine environments. However, the relative contribution of historical (e.g., sea-level ...

Aequipecten techuelchus is an endemic scallop of the Argentine biogeographic province in the southwest Atlantic Ocean which supports a commercial fishery that has presented strong fluctuations since the 1960s. It is unclear ...

Many artisanal fisheries along coastal zones all over the world belong to the “S” type: small-scale, spatially-structured, targeting sedentary stocks [“S” is derived from the number of times that the letter s appears in ...

The scalloped hammerhead shark Sphyrna lewini is the most important species in the artisanal shark fishery in the Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico. The knowledge about their reproductive biology in the area is nonexistent, ...

During the years of 1989 and 1990, the yield of the commercial fishery for the catarina scallop, Argopecten circularis (Sowerby, 1835), in Magdalena Bay, was 750 million organisms (5186t of muscles), which were gathered ...