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Get PDFThe forthcoming Ocean Conference should focus on the Sustainable Development Goals targets to ensure access to marine resources and markets for small-scale fishers
Chile: SSF, chilled out
Get PDFChile’s fisheries development model, which follows a neoliberal paradigm, is in danger of triggering a political, environmental and social crisis
Fiji: women in fisheries network
Get PDFThrough need based training and capacity development, the Fiji based Women in Fisheries Network hopes to aid women’s value-added participation in the fisheries sector
Brazil: fisherwomen, a backbreaking struggle
Get PDFThe abject working conditions of the shellfish fisherwomen on the Paraná coast of Brazil call for a revaluation of their work to guarantee them rights and benefits
India: roadmap for survival
Get PDFIn a two-day interactive workshop, women fishworkers in Kolkata, India, discussed strategies for future struggle and organizing
WIF/films: Moving pictures
Get PDFA video competition attracted a fascinating set of entries on the lives and work of women in the fisheries across the world
Boloceroides mcmurrichi (Kwietniewski, 1898)
Get PDFBoloceroides mcmurrichi is looking like an untidy mop, this anemone is sometimes seen in sea grass areas on many of our shores. It is possibly seasonal. Sometimes, large numbers are seen (up to 10-20 animals in a trip) and then none at all. Maximum length is 2 cm in Persian Gulf (Iran, Kish Island). Tiny swimming anemones may sometimes be confused with Sea grass anemones which have translucent tentacles with tiny spots. The swimming anemone harbors symbiotic single-celled algae (zooxanthellae). The algae undergo photosynthesis to produce food from sunlight. The food produced is shared with the sea anemone, which in return provides the algae with shelter and minerals. The oral disk and tentacle muscles are used to obtain, retain, and ingest prey; in B. mcmurrichi tentacles can autotomize if it is needed to evade a predator. Tentacles can control body form by use of their endodermal muscles. Retractors are longitudinal muscles that will aid in withdrawing tentacles and the oral disk if they are exposed to the open air. This hypothesis is furthered because in comparison to other sea anemones, B. mcmurrichi is loosely attached to its respective substrate, thus allowing the pedal disk to detach quickly resulting in a rapid swimming response. B. mcmurrichi can reproduce both sexually and asexually. As Anthozoans, B. Mcmurrichi produce sexually by bypassing the medusa life cycle stage; this allows B. mcmurrichi (and all Anthozoans) to release their egg and sperm creating planula a bilaterally symmetrical, flattened, ciliated, motile larva
Enneapterygius ventermaculus (Holleman, 1887)
Get PDFEnneapterygius ventermaculus, known commonly as the Blotched triplefin, is a species of triplefin blenny. They are generally coral reef inhabitants, their colouring and small size rendering them cryptic. E. ventermaculus is a demersal, marine species that occurs in subtropical climates and has a depth range of 0-12 m. New record is given from Iranian Waters of Persian Gulf (Kish Island). Maximum length is 4 cm in Kish Island male/unsexes. This is a cryptic species, found on rocky and coral reefs with encrusting algae and invertebrates. Triplefin blennies are small, large-eyed fish that live in shallow coastal waters around the world. They are residents of rocky shore communities. E. ventermaculus show sexual dichromatism. Males are more brightly and/or darkly colored than females, during spawning male tripterygiids generally develop some combination of black and/or red on the head, body and caudal fin. Female members of the E. ventermaculus have eggs that are hemispherical and covered with numerous sticky threads that anchor them in the algae on the nesting sites. Larvae are planktonic which occur primarily in shallow, nearshore waters