probability of actually hitting the mean values. Simulations are conducted with different fixed fishing mortality levels under 6 … scenarios. It seems that a constant fishing mortality around 0.06 is optimal. In the end, a comparison is made between …

Coral bleaching and subsequent mortality represent a major threat to the future health and productivity of coral reefs …

ponds, fencing off amphibians resulted in a 28 per cent decrease in mortality. Holding fry in hapas to protect them from … both amphibians and aquatic arthropods decreased mortality by an insignificant 5.7 per cent. Installation of bird …-netting over the hapas reduced mortality by 21.7 per cent. The remaining 4.9 per cent of total mortality, which could not be …

A simple approach is introduced to estimate the natural mortality rate (M) of fish stocks. The approach is based on the … derived and could be used to estimate M, where K is the growth coefficient of the von Bertalanffy growth function. Average …