The edible periwinkle Littorina littorea (L.) has been exploited as a food source in Ireland since the stone age (Woodman, Anderson and Finlay, 1999). Today there is a large market for the edible periwinkle on the continent, principally in France. Pearson (1994) estimat...

Sea lice are copepod ectoparasites of fish, belonging to the family Caligidae. Their importance to marine salmonid culture stems from the extensive damage they may inflict on hosts through feeding and contact abrasion. The principal species associated with cultured salm...

Population assessments of the juvenile salmonids in the Corrib System are being made as part of the overall management plan for the Galway Fishery. In 1980 the first of a series of reports which will be issued annually gave information on the juvenile stocks and on the ...

The use of immunoassay technology as an adjunct method for monitoring biotoxins in shellfish was investigated at aquaculture sites in Killary Harbour, Ireland, during summer 2009. Sub-samples of mussels (Mytilus edulis) were taken from batches collected as part of the I...

This aim of this project is to contribute to the development of an appropriate Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) Framework for Ireland by reporting on MSP relevant to Ireland. This report details case study selection, evaluation and presentation of case study findings. The ...

North Atlantic (NA) stock assessments address the marine phase, estimating returns to home waters, with Pre-Fishery Abundance (PFA) estimated through raising of national (or regional) annual catches by exploitation rates and attributing unreported catch and natural mort...

The W.J.N. Menzies Memorial Lecture delivered at the Annual Course of the Institute of Fisheries Management at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, on 16 September, 1975.

This report gives recapture details of microtagged salmon recovered during 2010 commercial fishing season including broodstock. The report includes 1 and 2 sea winter recoveries, that is those fish which were released and migrated in 2009 and 2008 respectively.

Working with the fishing industry to collect fishery-dependent data for scientific and advisory purposes is essential in most countries, but despite the many advantages of working with fishers, it is not without challenges. The objectives and the ups and downs of 16 rec...

Laboratory studies on associations between disease resistance and susceptibility and major histocompatibility (MH) genes in Atlantic salmon Salmo salar have shown the importance of immunogenetics in understanding the capacity of populations to fight specific diseases. H...