A GLOBAL OVERVIEW OF RESTORATIVE SHELLFISH MARICULTURE

A Global Overview of Restorative Shellfish Mariculture

Farming of marine organisms (mariculture) represented 36% of global aquaculture, with mollusks representing 58.8% in live weight.Mollusk populations in some locations are, however, threatened by degradation of the ecosystems and/or over-fishing.This threat is increasingly being addressed through Restorative Shellfish Mariculture (RSM), as opposed t

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Achieving polio eradication: a review of health communication evidence and lessons learned in India and Pakistan

Since 1988, the world Frankincense has come very close to eradicating polio through the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, in which communication interventions have played a consistently central role.Mass media and information dissemination approaches used in immunization efforts worldwide have contributed to this success.However, reaching the ha

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Analytic salinity-temperature relations for the upper-thermocline waters of the eastern North Atlantic subtropical gyre

We study the dependence of salinity on temperature in two by two degrees latitude-longitude boxes, for surface and Presser Feet upper-thermocline waters of the eastern North Atlantic subtropical gyre.The initial data set, from historical databases as well as from recent hydrographic cruises in the region, is carefully scrutinized to reject dubious

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