Fish and Fisheries Research
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First peer-reviewed, on-line journal on
Fish and Fisheries Research (ISSN 1136-1794).
March 1996 - For circulation in the scientific community.
Announcement and initial call for papers and reports.
This information package may be accessed at our main WWW
site at http://WWW.LSOFT.COM/FFResearch/index.html
Index of contents.
* 1. On Fish and Fisheries Research.
1.1. Aims and Scope.
1.2. Resource, Fisheries and Management Systems: Reports and News.
1.2.1. Rationale.
by Serge Garcia and John Caddy.
Marine Resource Service (FAO).
1.3. Editorial-networking Group.
3.1. Articles and Monographs.
3.2. National and International Reports and News.
3.3. Form for Reports and News.
3.4. Letters to the Editors.
4.1. Electronic formats.
4.2. Editorial addresses.
4.3. Letters to the Editors.
Fish and Fisheries Research (FFResearch) is the first worldwide, on-line, peer-reviewed, scientific journal devoted to the dissemination of current investigations on the biology and ecology of freshwater and marine fish and fisheries.
Original research findings covering all scientific areas of fish research, fishery science and fisheries management will be considered for publication with the understanding that their content is unpublished. Contents may range from the applied to the theoretical. Article submission, review and publication will be electronic. Equations, graphics, tables and text are supported.
FFResearch is supported by the Swedish Government through the Swedish University Network (SUNET) situated at the Royal University of Technology in Stockholm (Sweden), the Faculty of Marine Science and Computer Communications Center (CICEI) at the University of Las Palmas (ULP) in the Canary Islands and L-Soft International, a networking corporation in Washington D.C. (United States of America).
The aim is to meet a critical need for timely and cost-effective delivery of research information:
(a) Articles will be published in a publicly accessible "issue-in-progress" as soon as they are accepted. Publication timing will decrease significantly compared to the conventional scientific press;
(b) Also, anyone with Internet connection will be able to freely access published works for individual and academic use and to carry out data base searches by keyword on abstracts, articles, monographs and reports.
Furthermore, a section for Reports and Scientific News will be issued in cooperation with the Marine Resource Service of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in order to promote early diffusion of information on world resources and fisheries and to assist FAO in its task of monitoring of world Fisheries. Up-to-date information on assessments of the state of world fisheries, new fishery management techniques that are being tried out and summaries of national and international reports on stock and fisheries analyses should be addressed to this (non internationally peer-reviewed) section. Expected sources are government, academic and international organizations.
1.2.1. Rationale. By Serge Garcia and John Caddy. Marine Resource Service (FAO).
The present situation of fisheries and the need for monitoring significant and rapid changes in stock status and management measures has created a need to improve the quantity and timeliness of information on (i) resources, (ii) fisheries and (iii) fisheries management in order to improve overall monitoring of their state and evolution.
In attempting to face this challenge, a major difficulty is that conventional sources of information have either significantly declined (e.g., stock assessment Working Groups in the developing world) or appear in the formal peer-reviewed literature with excessive time lags. In addition, resource assessments which were still peer- reviewed a decade or two ago as scientific publications have now become part of a routine assessment process and appear at best in the grey literature (national technical reports) and are hardly available.
The section "Resources, Fisheries and Management Systems: Reports and News" could drastically improve this situation and provide information in a close to real time basis if the readers of the Journal accept to contribute first hand information. While the information provided may not be peer-reviewed internationally, it may have been "locally" reviewed and, in any case, will be made available under the responsibility of the provider. The name, affiliation and address would be available with the news item, together with a reference to a source document (technical report, etc.), when appropriate, and where it could be obtained.
The news items could provide, inter alia, advance notification of the results of a stock assessment or an in- depth analysis of a fishery or fishery sector, peer- reviewed through a formal process for publication. It could also refer to less structured information about apparent significant declines in resources, fisheries crises, new fisheries, evaluation of management systems, introduction of new management approaches (e.g., precautionary approaches, limited entry, ITQs, property or user rights), etc. Recent assessments of the fisheries environment or environmental impacts of fisheries could also be reported.
The Fisheries Resource Division of FAO, which has suggested opening such a news section, will cooperate with the journal in analyzing the news received. After due evaluation of its reliability, news items may be used as ancillary information in preparing the State of Fisheries Resources prepared every two years for the FAO Committee on Fisheries and for distribution to a wide audience.
The elements of information which would be particularly useful, for any news _on a stock, or a fishery_ would be:
A. Species identification: scientific name, local name, species assemblage;
B. Fishery description: gear, area: depth, bottom, fleet size, national/industrial competition;
C. Stock status: trends in biomass and/or spawning stock size,
natural and fishing mortality rate, state in relation to
MSY or FO.1 or other benchmark. Notes on methodology (e.g.
Y/R analysis, production model, trawl survey, etc.),
environmental impacts;
D. Economic situation: employment, subsidies, market, economic programme, etc.;
E. Management framework: catch or effort controls, TACs and
quotas, limited entry, property rights, recent changes in
approach, precautionary measures, and where these may be
obtained;
F. Source of additional information: manuscripts, formal
publications, in press, local technical report, personal
communication, fishermen's observations;
The news items will be stored in a full text database which will allow the users to undertake on-line full text search as well as in the CD-ROM format of the journal. [end of Rationale].
The Editorial-networking Group is a multinational scientific-technical team which untertakes the management of FFResearch. The initial staff is integrated by the following individuals:
C. Bas (Editor-in-Chief)
J. M. Martin-Glez (Chair)
A. P. Solari (Editorial manager)
S. Rodriguez (Hyper Text Publishing)
E. Thomas (Systems manager, SUNET, Stockholm)
A. Ocon (Systems manager, CICEI, U. of Las Palmas)
G. Aller (Systems operator, CICEI, U. of Las Palmas)
The Scientific Board (SB), being the most important link in this venture, will ensure the overall quality control of FFResearch by a conventional refereeing procedure. The SB is integrated by the following scientists (surnames listed in alphabetical order, country code between brackets):
Eugene Ackerman Ph. D. Retired Professor [US] Josef Ackerman U. of Northern British Columbia [CA] James Albert Nippon Medical School [JP] Filippo Aureli Emory U. [US] Patricia Almada Sr. Fish Cons. Consultant-Aquacon [UK] Mark Bain Cornell U. [US] Luiz Barbieri Marine Inst., U. of Georgia [US] Carles Bas Superior Comittee of Sc. Inv. [ES] Gerd Becker U. of Hamburg [DE] Kim Bell Mem. U. of Newfoundland [CA] Per-Anders Bergqvist Umea U. [SE] Malcolm Beveridge U. of Stirling [UK] Brian Bigler Res. Sc., Seattle [US] Max Blouw U. of N. Bristish Columbia [CA] Erling Bondesen Roschilde U. [DK] Fred Bookstein U. of Michigan [US] Steve Branstetter Gulf-South Atl. Fisher. Develop. Found. [US] John Caddy FAO [UN] Jose Castro U. of Las Palmas [ES] Sam Chi Boston U. [US] Patricia Clay Nat. Mar. Fish. Serv. [US] Gerard Conan North Atlantic Fish. Center,(NF) [CA] Paul Cornelius Nat. Hist. Museum (London) [UK] Douglas Cross Sr. Sc., Society of Expert Witnesses [UK] Lotz Debus U. of Rostock [DE] Omar Defeo National Fisheries Institute [UY] David Die CSIRO [AU] Hans Eilertsen U. of Troemsoe [NO] John Endler U. of California [US] Ulf Erlingsson Uppsala U. [SE] David Evans U. of Florida [US] Svein Fevolden U. of Troemsoe [NO] Arild Folkvord U. of Bergen [NO] Adam Frankel Cornell U. [US] Serge Garcia FAO [UN] Peter Gehrke NSW Fisheries Res. Inst. [AU] Carter Gilbert Museum of Nat. Hist. (Florida) [US] Antonio Gonzalez U. of Las Palmas [ES] Richard Gordon U. of Manitoba [CA] Adolfo Gracia U. Autonoma de Mexico [MX] Steve Gutreuter National Biol. Service [US] Kylie Hall Victorian Fisheries Res. Inst. [AU] Paul Hart U. of Leicester [UK] Andrew Hebda Museum of Nat. Hist. (Halifax) [CA] Vicente Hernandez U. of Las Palmas [ES] Ray Hilborn U. of Washington [US] C. Hollingworth U. of Wales [UK] Robert Hueter Mote Marine Laboratory [US] Reinhold Hutz U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee [US] K. Kannan Skidaway Institute of Ocean. [US] Anne Kaukas Nat. Hist. Museum of London [UK] Ulrik Kautsky U. of Stockholm [SE] Michio Kishi Ocean Res. Inst., U. of Tokyo [JP] Vic Klemas U. of Delaware [US] Teruhisa Komatsu Ocean Res. Inst., U. of Tokyo [JP] Sven Kullander Swedish Museum of Nat. Hist. [SE] Paul LeBlond U. of British Columbia [CA] Romuald Lipcius Virginia Inst. of Mar. Science [US] Bommanna Loganathan Skidaway Inst. of Ocean. [US] Dario Maestripieri Emory U. [US] Anthony Mazeroll West Texas A & M U. [US] Bonnie McCay Rutgers University [US] Frank McCormick U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [US] Norman McLeod Nat. History Museum of London [UK] Markus Meili U. of Uppsala [SE] Peter Moller Am. Museum of Nat. History [US] Jim Moore U. of California [US] R. Morfords Res. scient. (retired) [US] Yutaka Natsukari Nagasaki U. [JP] Francis O'Beirn Virginia Tech [US] Donald Orth Virginia Polyt. Inst. and State U. [US] Ray Paton U. of Liverpool [UK] Jose Pelegri U. of Las Palmas [ES] Januss Pempkoeviak Inst. of Oceanology, Polish Ac. of Sc. [PL] Jan Piechura Inst. of Oceanology, Polish Ac. of Sc. [PL] Mario de Pinna U. Sao Paulo [BZ] Tony Pitcher Res. scient. [CA] Steve Rebach U. of Maryland [US] Rodney Rountree Nat. Mar. Fish. Serv. [US] Lars Rudstam Cornell U. [US] David Schneider Mem. U. of Newfoundland [CA] George Sedberry Mar. Resource Res. Inst.-C. Charleston [US] Rochelle Seitz Virginia Inst. of Mar. Sc. [US] Sergey Semovski Inst. of Oceanology, Polish Ac. of Sc. [PL] Alan Sinclair Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans [CA] Jan Smith U. of Saskatchewan [CA] Richard Spieler Nova Southeastern U. [US] Gunnar Stefansson Marine Res. Inst. [IS] Fredrik Stengard U. of South Florida [US] David Stephens U. of Nebraska [US] Mike St. John Danish Inst. of Mar. Res. [DK] Tracey Sutton U. of Southern Florida [US] Max Taylor U. of British Columbia [CA] Ian Tibbetts U. of Queensland [AU] Peter Verity Skidaway Inst. of Ocean [US] Gary Vinyard U. of Nevada [US] John Volpe U. of Victoria [CA] Asbjorn Vollestad U. of Oslo [NO] Peter Wainwright Florida State U. [US] Bill Warren Res. scient. [US] Judith Weis Rutgers U. [US] Peter Wimberger U. of Puget Sound [US] Ian Winfield Inst. of Freshwater Ecol. [UK] Deo Winter U. of Port Elizabeth [ZA] Patrick Woo U. of Guelph [CA] Harada Yasushi Mie U. [JP] Dirk Zeller James Cook. U. [AU]
If you either are or may recommend a Senior scientist, head of
research group or research scientist and/who would like to
participate in the Scientific Board, you may contact the Editors at
the following electronic address:
. Please, enclose CV and list of
publications. When recommending a third party, please, enclose
name, electronic address and institutional affiliation of the
scientist being recommended.
FFRresearch is a multidisciplinary refereed journal. In the review process, the Editor-in-Chief, Research Prof. C. Bas and/or the Editorial Group at the Faculty of Marine Science, ULP, will preview your article-monograph for its quality and suitability for further delivery to the aproppriate referees. Two reviews will be required for descriptive articles and three for controversial-complex investigations.
Authors may suggest, if they wish, the names, institutional affiliation and electronic addresses of two potential referees. The Editors, however, will not be bound to use such peer-reviewers.
The Editors will do everything possible to ensure prompt publication. Therefore, it is required that each submitted article or monograph be in complete form. Contributions which are not in complete form will be rejected at the first instance.
The text and tables of papers must be submitted in a suitable form for computer setting. This includes standard word-processor formats (Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, Ami Pro and MacWrite).
Each contribution must be written in English and be provided an Abstract which should recapitulate the principal facts and conclusions of the paper in a maximum of 300 words. The Abstract should be intelligible without reference to the text.
All articles-monographs should be headed by the following information: Title, name(s) of Author(s), electronic and postal addresses to the authors, Abstract and Key Words.
As a rule, the text should be subheaded Introduction, Material and Methods, Results and Discussion and be clearly written and organized. Official rules are used for zoological and botanical nomenclature. Genus and species names should either be (a) italicized or (b) underlined. All measurements must be given in the metric system and abbreviations should follow ISO standards. Acronyms are written as DFO, FAO, ICES, etc. Dates are written as 19 January 1995 and names of vessels as "Argos". A point should be used for decimals (i.e. 3.1416) and a space for large numbers (1 345 234). Citations are given as Ricker (1954) or (Ricker, 1954). When there are three or more authors, use the form Ricker et al. (1960) to cite them. References should be listed in alphabetical order as follows:
For papers published in a journal:
Ricker, W. (1954).
Stock and Recruitment.
Journal of the Fisheries Board of Canada 11:559-623
The same rules apply for articles and monographs published in FFResearch where the name of the journal, volume and entry for a reference should be quoted as follows:
Fish and Fisheries Research I:1:1
where I:1:1 refers to the section for Investigations, volume and entry number, respectively.
For books:
Cushing, D. H. (1977).
The problems of stock and recruitment.
-in Fish population dynamics. J. A. Gulland (Editor)
John Wiley and Sons Inc.
For reports:
Report of the working group on ... (1994) ICES Council Meeting pp 51-90.
For Reports and Scientific News published in FFResearch, a reference should be quoted as follows:
Name of authors/institution (date)
Title of Report
Fish and Fisheries Research R:1:1
where R:1:1 refers to the Section for Reports and Scientific News, volume and entry, respectively.
Ecuations must be numbered and should be included within the text.
Tables must be headed by a short, explicit and stand-alone legend and should be collected at the end of the text in anyone of the word-processor formats mentioned above.
Graphic works (diagrams, photographs, maps as well as any other kind of imagery, colour or black and white) must be submitted as single items (i.e. there must be a file for each graph or image). A figure or photograph must be carefully prepared, be numbered and headed by a brief, explicit and stand-alone legend. To do this, the Author should edit the graphics file with the aproppriate software program and write the legend as indicated above. To see a generic example, click here.
Graphical material must be supplied in the actual size that is appropriate for one- or two-column format (9 or 18 cm width, respectively). However, larger sizes may be allowed if required by the imagery. The Editors would like to achieve as much uniformity as possible. Scanning resolution of graphs and imagery should be 800 * 600 pixels or lower if such a resolution is not available. Contrast should be relatively high and shapes and lines clearly defined. Backgrounds should be smooth and white for 2 and 3 axis graphs. Use colour only when required by the imagery to highlight the information therein communicated. Graphical formats may be GIF, JPG, PCX or TIF and, for submission, graphic files must be named as they are referred in the text with the extention of the graphic format (i.e. Fig1.GIF ... Fig#.GIF or Fig1.JPG ... Fig#.JPG if either the GIF or JPG format is used, respectively).
Report summaries and News on Resource, Fisheries and Management Systems must be headed by a title, keywords, institutional source, electronic and postal addresses as well as facsimil and telephone numbers to whom correspondence should be sent. The requested information is mandatory. Anonymous news will not be accepted. It is understood that news providers will in principle be available to provide more information if contacted by the readers.
The text should be very concise containing the essential information on the resource, the fishery, the management system and the main information about them (e.g., a change in status, a critical situation, a major improvement, etc.) and any other information on the dynamics of the fishery system, of biological or economic nature.
Each contribution must be written in English. The text should be 1 000 and maximum 1500 words plus one graph, a table and a bibliographic source when relevant. Guidelines for tables and graphical works are given under "Instruction for Authors (Articles and Monographs)".
Guidelines for the Reports and News section of FFResearch were condensed from those proposed by Serge Garcia and John Caddy from the Marine Resource Service (FAO) and the Editorial Group.
It is suggested that report contributors follow a similar structure when sending in their information to FFResearch. Such a structure will facilitate data base searching, gathering and monitoring specific information. Pre-defined elements information which are not used must be deleted before submission. Reports are to be sent to the following electronic address:
Your comments and criticism on the structure, quality and contents of FFResearch will be highly appreciated. Letters addressing scientific issues may be published in the "Letters to the Editors" section if they are considered of general interest. Letters to the Editors should be consise.
Authors should make a directory on their local disk where all files must be included before compression. As a generic example, a directory should contain the following files:
MAIN.TXT [the text of an article with tables
collected at the end of the text]
FIG1.GIF [Figure 1 with header legend] ...
FIG#.GIF [Figure 2 with header legend]
Once the text-tables file and each of the figures are included in the directory, they should be compressed into a single package.
Macintosh users should preferently use PKZip while IBM/PC users PKZip or ARJ. Unix users should use Zip emulating the MS-DOS PKZip package.
Authors should use a password alternative when compressing the files. The password must be included in a separate mail to the Editors together with the name of the binary (compressed) file and letter for submission.
Once the directory has been compressed into a binary file, the later must be UUencoded in order to send the typescript through the net. UUencode is a freeware program and protects the integrity of the file.
Articles, monographs as well as Letters to the Editors should be addressed to:
Editors-FFResearch@SEGATE.SUNET.SE
Letters to the Editors should either address submissions or scientific issues. Submission letters should include the title of the material being submitted, name and postal addresses to the author(s) as well as the password to unzip the binary file.
Reports and Scientific News on Resource, Fisheries and Management Systems should be addressed to:
Reports-FFResearch@SEGATE.SUNET.SE
and any other queries to
Request-FFResearch@SEGATE.SUNET.SE
Postal address:
Editorial.
Fish and Fisheries Research.
Faculty of Marine Science (ULP).
Box 550
E-35018 Las Palmas (Canary Islands)
fax int. (34) 28 - 45 29 22.
Copyrights to the contents of each published article, monograph and/or report are retained by the authors.
Copyrights on the *compilation* of works, seen as the organized sum of information published in Fish and Fisheries Research (FFResearch), are retained by the journal. This implies that other sources may neither recompile nor redistribute, sell, resell, rent, lease or lend the journals contents as a whole without authorization.
Works published in Fish and Fisheries Research are made available to the scientific community and other scholars, professionals as well as the layman for individual and academic fair use. This implies that an individual may freely view, load and keep copies of published articles onto a local computer disk for individual use only.
The integrity of published works in FFResearch is assured through networking facilities in Europe (Swedish University Network and Computer and Communications Center-Faculty of Marine Science, University of Las Plamas) and in the United States (L-Soft International, Wa. DC). Published works will be given further protection through fixation onto highly stable magneto-optical disks (standard CDs). These will be distributed to libraries and institutions for archival purposes and may neither be redistributed nor recompiled, sold, resold, rented or leased by any other source without authorization. The combination of both media will serve to protect the intellectual property of authors by national copyright laws.
Free, real time, on-line access to the full contents of FFResearch
will be via World-Wide-Web (WWW). The location of our main site is
at
http://WWW.LSOFT.COM/FFResearch/index.html
For text-only access, delivered to your mailbox, you may join
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If you experience any problems which you are unable to address after contacting your Systems administrator, please, contact:
Request-FFResearch@SEGATE.SUNET.SE
describing your problem as briefly as possible.
Real time, on-line, full text and graphics data base searches will be freely available to users for individual and fair academic use on the search engines at the location
http://WWW.LSOFT.COM/FFResearch/index.html
The easy-to-use data base search interface at our WWW site will permit users to write-key-word-and-click to obtain results.
Also, command based data base searches will be available at our LISTSERV site in Stockholm. When subscribing to the text-only services, users will be informed on the aproppriate commands to carry out searches. See even the Copyright statement above.
No responsibility, legal or otherwise, is assumed by Fish and Fisheries Research (FFResearch), its editorial staff, members of the Scientific Board or Authors for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of any use or operation of any methods, products, ideas, errors, omissions or claims contained in published works herein. Furthermore, neither express nor implied warranties are provided with respect to information published in FFResearch.
The Editor-in-Chief and Editorial management of FFResearch would like to acknowledge the following institutions and individuals for their support and encouragement:
The Board at the Swedish University Network [SUNET], the Management at the CICEI-University of Las Palmas as well as L-Soft International for supporting and providing this multinational joint-venture the know-how on networking, technical manpower, high-end hardware and systems.
Directors S. Garcia (Marine Resource Service, FAO), J. Matos (Dept. of Physics, U. of Las Palmas), E. Rubio-Royo (CICEI, U. of Las Palmas) as well as J. Santana, Dean at the Faculty of Marine Science (U. of Las Palmas), for their encouragement and key participation.
A highly complex triad of shared system resources between our sites in Stockholm-Canary Islands-Washington DC are due to the know-how and dedication of our Senior System Managers A. Ocon (CICEI-U. of Las Palmas) and E. Thomas (SUNET, L-Soft International).
The members of the Scientific Board as well as all other involved parties without whom this opening into the scientific media of the XXI century could not be started.
Please, use the following electronic addresses to reach FFResearch:
To submit Articles, Monographs and Letters to the Editors;
To send in Reports and Scientific News;
To send in queries and comments.
FFResearch may be accessed through the following addresses:
Free, real time, on-line access to the full contents of FFResearch
will be via World-Wide-Web (WWW). The location of our main site is
at
http://WWW.LSOFT.COM/FFResearch/index.html
For text-only access, delivered to your mailbox, you may join
FFResearch-Contents@SEGATE.SUNET.SE [Abtracts] and
FFReports-News@SEGATE.SUNET.SE [Reports and News]
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