Juniper Publishers-Oceanography Open Access Journal

  Oceanography & Fisheries Open Access Journal Juniper Publishers Authored by: Siyanbola A Omitoyin Abstract Fish stocks have been reported to have been depleted as a result of climate change impacts in Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State, Nigeria, where a large number of people depend on water bodies for their livelihood, this research therefore look into livelihood vulnerability of fisherfolks in the area to climate change and how they are coping and adapting to the changes brought by it. A Multi-stage sampling technique was employed to select a total of two hundred (200) fisherfolks within the regions, data collected were aggregated using a composite index and differential vulnerabilities LVI–IPCC was scaled from -1(least vulnerable) to 1 (most vulnerable). The result show that coastal fishing communities in Ilaje, had a higher livelihood vulnerability index (0.357) than the freshwater fishing communities (0.356), indicating relatively greater vulnerabil...

  Oceanography & Fisheries Open Access Journal Juniper Publishers Authored by  Rajib Biswas Introduction With the rise in world population, the pollution in varieties form is also escalating. The rise of technology and industrial revolution has beefed up many forms of pollution into the environment. As we can see, there are plastic pollution, aquatic pollution, sound pollution, light pollution and many more. On a closer note, it is seen that these pollutions are somewhat coupled to each other either directly or indirectly. Another evolving menace in the form of microplastics is slowly invading our ecosystem [1]. This can be treated as a subset of plastic pollution. They are slowly polluting the aquatic systems; thereby jeopardizing the existing ecosystem. This short communication overviews the basics of microplastics. It further highlights the dreadful impacts on the aquatic species, followed by future recommendations. ...

  Oceanography & Fisheries Open Access Journal Abstract Increasingly, we resort to taking in seawater for desalination, cooling, or both. Sometimes there are problems of biofouling of the intake system: at the intake screens, or in the pipeline, and / or at the onshore end of the pipeline where the flow is usually pumped up to a plant for cooling or desalination. Biofouling control measures that may be considered include screens at the offshore end of the intake pipe system; air backwash of those screens; at the offshore end of the intake system; chemical dosing of the intake pipe wall; excavation of biomass collected at the shore end of the intake system; use of a shorter intake pipeline, even though the water quality nearer shore may be inferior to that found farther and deeper from shore. Keywords: Biofouling; Mollusks; Jellyfish; Seawater intakes; Retrofit Introduction Increasingly, we resort to taking in sea...