Sentence examples for fish index from inspiring English sources

An estuarine multi-metric fish index (EMFI) was developed and applied to Irish transitional waters.

We used the y-intercept of quantile regression to predict the fish index value for a stressor gradient value of 0 (the fish index value at a site with the lowest mean stressor gradient score in the reference stratum) which we designated as least-disturbed condition for the fish index for that stratum.

Based on the derived condition class thresholds for the fish index, 10% (by length) of the Lower Missouri was in least-disturbed condition, compared to 14% of the Ohio River and 19% of the impounded Upper Mississippi River.

For collection of fish for mercury analysis, we selected one town of higher and one of lower SES in each of the three regions and randomly selected individual stores from New Jersey's Seafood and Fish Index Page (International Purveyor Index 2002).

We defined lakes in pristine condition as reference lakes and adapted a fish multimetric index of biotic integrity.

The global fish-price index of the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) hit a record high in May.

Sapmer, a French fishing company, recently discontinued its canned-tuna production, instead concentrating on catching tuna for sushi and sashimi for the top end of the market.Frank Asche of the University of Stavanger, who helped to devise the FAO fish-price index, sees parallels with the divergence between farmed meat and wild game.

In the present study, fish biological indices (HIS and VSI) were not significantly affected by dietary lipid source.

Whilst macroinvertebrates demonstrated no relationship with derived scores of habitat quality, the fish-based Index of well-being (Iwb) was strongly related to the Habitat Modification Score.

Seamounts with a higher fishing-effects index had lower abundances and occurrence of live corals, and there were clear assemblage differences between fished and unfished seamounts in the complex [70], [71].

For each fish species indices were calculated as the proportion of fish groups that used a coral growth form, divided by the proportion of benthos occupied by that growth form [45]. Relevance of indices was interpreted using 95% confidence intervals [46].