Nine people, including four teenage fishery students and two instructors, were killed in the accident, which set off an uproar in Japan and complicated the delicate military relations between the two countries.
By making this collection open access, we hope that this information will be available to researchers, students, fishery managers, and the interested public alike.
María José Juan-Jordá, a Ph.D. student in fisheries science at the Universidade da Coruña in Spain, decided to analyze data from scientific surveys designed to determine population sizes.
The Ehime Maru left Japan on Jan . 10with 20 crew members, 2 teachers and 13 students from a Japanese fisheries school in the southeastern Japanese prefecture of Ehime.
Current occupation was classified as white-collar worker (including government employees, professionals and technicians), manufacturing industry worker, agricultural or fisheries worker, and other (including service sector and students).
Of 38 TAs teaching Bio1, 31 volunteered to participate in this study, including 23 doctoral students in plant biology, zoology, or fisheries and wildlife departments, and 8 in forensic science and anthropology departments.
The participants' occupations were categorized as services (which included students, housewives, and the unemployed), agriculture, fishery, or industry.
Louisa Wood, a doctoral student at the University of British Columbia Fisheries Centre in Vancouver, Canada, has spent the last several years assembling a database of some 4600 reserves that meet the IUCN definition of a marine protected area.
The point, for the students, was not so much what happens to fisheries -- outdoors -- but how to promote learning, indoors or out.
