Abstract Hart, DR, and Chute, AS 2009. Estimating von Bertalanffy growth parameters from
growth increment data using a linear mixed-effects model, with an application to the sea …

Market demand for scallops has considerably increased in recent decades. Although natural
populations of scallops are vulnerable, the queen scallop, Aequipecten opercularis, can …

Traditional fishery resource assessment methods using trawl gear are unable to sample
rocky substratum and are prone to underestimating the biomass of species having partial or …

The United States sea scallop management plan applies fishing mortality in a uniform
manner, assigning a single value of instantaneous fishing mortality (F) to the entire resource …

A mass mortality of the sea scallop Placopecten magellanicus occurred between 2004 and
2005 in the Nantucket Lightship Closed Area (NLCA), a Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the …

The environmental impacts of food production are increasingly influencing consumer's food
choices. To maintain market access in this context, the fishing industry must adopt strategies …

The ratio of 18O to 16O in the shell material of bivalves depends on the ambient water
temperature at the time the shell material was deposited. By analyzing samples of shell …

This chapter discusses aspects of the ecology of scallops concerned with their distributions
and behaviour. Geographical and local distributions of scallop populations are reviewed …

The sea scallop (Placopecten magellanicus) fisheries in the United States and Canada have
experienced unprecedented rebuilding over the past 15 years. Several factors have led to …

The present study examines the juvenile growth of nine cohorts of Mimachlamys varia in a
coastal area of the Ionian Sea, from January 2014 to May 2015. The results showed that M …