OpenChannels Literature Update Archives

For the week of 18 July 2016

Greetings OpenChannels Community Members,

The FAO has published the 2016 update to The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture. "This edition uses the latest official statistics on fisheries and aquaculture to present a global analysis of trends in fish stocks, production, processing, utilization, trade and consumption. It also reports on the status of the world’s fishing fleets and analyses the make-up of human engagement in the sector."

As always, if we've missed anything, please feel free to let me know. You may simply reply to this message, or you may email me directly at nwehner [at] openchannels.org.

Happy reading,
-Nick Wehner, OpenChannels Project Manager

For the week of 11 July 2016

Greetings OpenChannels Community Members,

NOAA published a new report, the Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program 2016 Report to Congress. The report highlights research conducted since the last report to congress in 2014, including focal areas in the Pacific Islands, Alaska, and the Gulf of Maine. You may download the full-text using the link above.

As always, if we've missed anything, please feel free to let me know. You may simply reply to this message, or you may email me directly at nwehner [at] openchannels.org.

Happy reading,
-Nick Wehner, OpenChannels Project Manager

For the week of 04 July 2016

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Ocean & Coastal Management has published, Measuring the impact of pollution closures on commercial shellfish harvest: The case of soft-shell clams in Machias Bay, Maine. The authors examined the economic impacts of temporary shellfish harvesting closures (to protect human health), finding in this case that "economic losses are significant and depend heavily on tidal activity, and the size, frequency and timing of closures." You may download the full-text using the link above.

As always, if we've missed anything, please feel free to let me know. You may simply reply to this message, or you may email me directly at nwehner [at] openchannels.org.

Happy reading,
-Nick Wehner, OpenChannels Project Manager

For the week of 27 June 2016

Greetings OpenChannels Community Members,

A few quick notes this week:

1. The book Science, Information, and Policy Interface for Effective Coastal and Ocean Management is available for purchase at a discount. Please see the attached flyer on literature page for full details.

2. The paper, Action and inertia in collaborative governance, is available for free for a limited time using the author's link. See the comments section on the literature page for more information.

3. We recently re-aliased the URLs for the entire Literature Library to make the links shorter and more stable (i.e. literature/1412966814 has been shortened to literature/7768). Unfortunately, some of the 6000+ automatic redirects aren't working properly. If you click on an old, long link and get taken to the main Literature Library page, just use the site's search in the blue box to find the item by its title. Sorry about the inconvenience!

As always, if we've missed anything, please feel free to let me know. You may simply reply to this message, or you may email me directly at nwehner [at] openchannels.org.

Happy reading,
-Nick Wehner, OpenChannels Project Manager

For the week of 20 June 2016

Greetings OpenChannels Community Members,

ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences has published, Development of a Multi-Site and Multi-Device Webgis-Based Tool for Tidal Current Energy Development. The authors describe the creation of a "multi-device and multi-criteria decision support tool designed to support the development of tidal current energy in the Philippines." You may download the full-text using the link above.

As always, if we've missed anything, please feel free to let me know. You may simply reply to this message, or you may email me directly at nwehner [at] openchannels.org.

Happy reading,
-Nick Wehner, OpenChannels Project Manager

For the week of 13 June 2016

Greetings OpenChannels Community Members,

The Nature Conservancy has released a new report, The Atlas of Ocean Wealth. "The Atlas of Ocean Wealth is the largest collection to date of information about the economic, social and cultural values of coastal and marine habitats from all over the world. It is a synthesis of innovative science, led by [TNC], with many partners around the world. Through these efforts, we’ve gathered vast new datasets from both traditional and less likely sources." You may download the full-text using the link above.

As always, if we've missed anything, please feel free to let me know. You may simply reply to this message, or you may email me directly at nwehner [at] openchannels.org.

Happy reading,
-Nick Wehner, OpenChannels Project Manager

For the week of 06 June 2016

Greetings OpenChannels Community Members,

PLOS ONE has published, More than Anecdotes: Fishers’ Ecological Knowledge Can Fill Gaps for Ecosystem Modeling. The authors compared a fishery model made from fisher knowledge with one based on the scientific literature. "The ecosystem attributes produced from the fishers’ knowledge model were consistent with the ecosystem attributes produced by the scientific model, and elaborated using only the scientific data from literature." You may download the full-text using the link above.

As always, if we've missed anything, please feel free to let me know. You may simply reply to this message, or you may email me directly at nwehner [at] openchannels.org.

Happy reading,
-Nick Wehner, OpenChannels Project Manager

For the week of 30 May 2016

Greetings OpenChannels Community Members,

The Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) has published a new report on the Socio-Economic Benefits of the EU Marine Protected Areas. "This report collects, systematises and discusses the available evidence on the socio- economic benefits provided by the protection of European coastal areas and seascapes. The focus is on benefits associated with MPAs. However, when such information is not available, the report draws from studies documenting benefits associated with protection or restoration of coastal and marine ecosystems in general, considering this as indirect evidence for MPAs. " You may download the full-text using the link above.

As always, if we've missed anything, please feel free to let me know. You may simply reply to this message, or you may email me directly at nwehner [at] openchannels.org.

Happy reading,
-Nick Wehner, OpenChannels Project Manager

For the week of 23 May 2016

Greetings OpenChannels Community Members,

SeaPlan has published a new report on Addressing Interactions between Fisheries and Offshore Wind Development: The Block Island Wind Farm. "This paper summarizes the fisheries outreach program and highlights strategies that were effective in minimizing conflict and establishing a collaborative relationship between [Deepwater Wind] and Rhode Island commercial and recreational fishing communities." You may download the full-text using the link above.

As always, if we've missed anything, please feel free to let me know. You may simply reply to this message, or you may email me directly at nwehner [at] openchannels.org.

Happy reading,
-Nick Wehner, OpenChannels Project Manager

For the weeks of 11 & 18 May 2016

Greetings OpenChannels Community Members,

PLOS ONE has published, The Effectiveness, Costs and Coastal Protection Benefits of Natural and Nature-Based Defences. "This paper addresses two issues critical for designing restoration projects for coastal protection: (i) a synthesis of the costs and benefits of projects designed for coastal protection (nature-based defences) and (ii) analyses of the effectiveness of coastal habitats (natural defences) in reducing wave heights and the biophysical parameters that influence this effectiveness." You may download the full-text using the link above.

As always, if we've missed anything, please feel free to let me know. You may simply reply to this message, or you may email me directly at nwehner [at] openchannels.org.

Happy reading,
-Nick Wehner, OpenChannels Project Manager