Repository of community practices in Ocean Research, Applications and Data/Information Management
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Basic fishing methods: a comprehensive guide to commercial fishing methods.
(Seafish, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2022)Basic Fishing Methods provides a wealth of basic knowledge on how wild fish and shellfish are caught using a range of fishing methods. You may be keen to see how different types of gear work, or just interested in the ... -
Bayesian statistics and modelling.
(2021)Bayesian statistics is an approach to data analysis based on Bayes’ theorem, where available knowledge about parameters in a statistical model is updated with the information in observed data. The background knowledge ... -
A benthic substrate classification method for seabed images using deep learning: Application to management of deep-sea coral reefs.
(2023)Protecting deep-sea coral-based vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs) from human impacts, particularly bottom trawling, is a major conservation challenge in world oceans. Management processes for these ecosystems are weakened ... -
Benthic Terrain Modeler (BTM) 3.0, tools for understanding and classifying the benthic environment. [Sofware]
(Esri, Redlands, CA, USA, 2018)A full tutorial with sample data is included with this zip file within the 'tutorial' directory. This self-paced training module introduces the benthic terrain modeling concepts used in the BTM, and steps users through ... -
Best Management Practice Recommendations For Seaweed Relocation Activities,
(Galveston Park Board, Galvaston, TX, 2015)This document has been prepared to help enhance the beach experience and improve environmental stewardship for the benefit of all beach visitors. The beaches of Galveston provide many unique and diverse recreational ... -
Best Practice Framework and Principles for Monitoring the Effect of Coastal Development on Marine Mammals.
(2017)As the world’s human population increases along the coastal zone, with major alteration of coastal embayments, increased on-water activities and a plethora of other intrusions into the coastal zone, there is a simultaneous ... -
Best Practice Guide for Underwater Particle Motion Measurement for Biological Applications.
(University of Exeter for the IOGP Marine Sound and Life Joint Industry Programme, Exeter, UK, 2021)The problem: All sound comprises fluctuations in pressure and particle motion (PM) and all fishes and many aquatic invertebrates detect PM. Noise is unwanted or harmful sound, and underwater anthropogenic noise is a global ... -
Best practice guidelines for aquaculture and sustainable management in a Mediterranean coastal wetland: case study of Doñana marshes (Andalucia, Spain).
(United Nations Environment Programme, Mediterranean Action Plan, Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas, Tunis, Tunisia, 2012)This guide is devoted to the interaction between aquaculture practices and the environment, particularly the conservation of threatened species and sensitive wetland habitats, and does not address other aspects of aquaculture ... -
Best practice guidelines for cetacean tagging.
(2019)Animal-borne electronic instruments (tags) are valuable tools for collecting information on cetacean physiology, behaviour and ecology, and for enhancing conservation and management policies for cetacean populations. Tags ... -
Best Practice Guidelines for Seaweed Cultivation and Analysis: Public Output report Report [WP1A5.01] of the EnAlgae Project.
(EnAlgae, Swansea University, Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Research, Swansea, UK, 2016)This document is a compilation of Best Practice recommendations and considerations employed by the EnAlgae macroalgal pilot facilities. EnAlgae was a four-year Strategic Initiative of INTERREG IVB North- West Europe ... -
Best practice in Ecopath with Ecosim food-web models for ecosystem-based management. [In: Special Edition: Ecopath 30 years - Modelling ecosystem dynamics: beyond boundaries with EwE]
(2016)Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) models are easier to construct and use compared to most other ecosystem modelling techniques and are therefore more widely used by more scientists and managers. This, how- ever, creates a problem ... -
Best practice in seabed image analysis for determining taxa, habitat, or substrata distributions.
(Ministry for Primary Industries, Wellington, N.Z., 2020)This is a review of seabed imaging survey methods and their application in New Zealand, focusing on the deep sea and covering the fields of image acquisition, data extraction from imagery, and data management. The potential ... -
Best practices for assessing ocean health in multiple contexts using tailorable frameworks.
(2015)Marine policy is increasingly calling for maintaining or restoring healthy oceans while human activities continue to intensify. Thus, successful prioritization and management of competing objectives requires a comprehensive ... -
Best Practices for Comparing Ocean Turbulence Measurements across Spatiotemporal Scales.
(2021)The turbulent energy dissipation rate in the ocean can be measured by using rapidly sampling microstructure shear probes, or by applying a finescale parameterization to coarser-resolution density and/or shear profiles. ... -
Best Practices for Fine-tuning Visual Classifiers to New Domains.
(Springer, Switzerland, 2016)Recent studies have shown that features from deep convolutional neural networks learned using large labeled datasets, like ImageNet, provide effective representations for a variety of visual recognition tasks. They achieve ... -
Best Practices for High Seas Fisheries Management: Lessons Learned.
(Chatham House, London, UK, 2007)• Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM), used in concert with the Precautionary Approach (PA), shows promise for improving management of marine resources on the high seas. • An examination of the approaches, operational ... -
Best Practices for Implementing Acoustic Technologies to Improve Reef Fish Ecosystem Surveys: Report from the 2017 GCFI Acoustics Workshop.
(NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Silver Spring, MD, 2019)Approximately 330 participants from 30 countries attended the 70th Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute (GCFI) conference held in Merida, Mexico during 4-10 November 2017. The conference featured ... -
Best Practices for Increasing Data Return: Case Study From Indian Ocean Observation Network
(2019)Sustained real-time ocean observation systems using moored data buoys are vital for understanding ocean dynamics and variability, which are essential for improving oceanographic services including weather prediction, ... -
Best practices for managing, measuring and mitigating the benthic impacts of fishing.[Part 2]
(2015)In a previous paper, Review of habitat dependent impacts of mobile and static fishing gears that interact with the sea bed (2014) we offered definitions for benthic habitat, fishing gear and fisheries management and a ... -
Best Practices for Marine Mammal Response, Rehabilitation and Release: standards for release.
(NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program, Silver Spring, MD, 2009)Rescue, rehabilitation, and release of wild marine mammals is allowed for authorized individuals under listed conditions by the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) [16 U.S.C. 1379 § 109(h)]. Section 402(a) of Title IV of ...
