The Occasional Paper series was created for "internal circulation to the project only." Any requests for copies of the papers from persons outside the project must first be approved by the author(s).
• BETTS, P.M. "All Go By The Capelin": A Study of Mallotus villosus, the Keystone Fish Species Supporting Sustainability for Outport Fishing Communities on the Bonavista Peninsula, Newfoundland - Planning a Thesis."
Paper presented at the School of Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. March 12, 1996.
• BETTS, P.M. "Sustainability in a Changing Cold Ocean Coastal Environment: A Project in Progress."
Paper presented at a seminar to graduate students in the Marine Affairs Programme and Resource and Environmental Studies Programme, Lester Pearson Institute at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. March 6, 1996.
• BUDGE, S.M. & C.C. PARRISH "Fatty Acid Biomarkers in a Cold Water Marine Environment"
An oral presentation given at the Atlantic Division Chemical Institute of Canada Conference on Marine Natural Products, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia. July 27-28, 1995.
ABSTRACT
• CADIGAN, S.T. "A `Chilling Neglect': The British Empire and Colonial Policy on the Newfoundland Bank Fishery, 1815-1855"
Paper presented at the Canadian Historical Association Meetings, Montreal, Quebec. August 1995.
• CADIGAN, S.T. "The Historical Role of Marginal Agriculture in Sustaining Coastal Communities on the Bonavista Peninsula"
Paper presented to the Tri-Council Eco-Research Program, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland. October 28, 1994.
• CADIGAN, S.T. "Marine Resource Exploitation and Development: Historical Antecedents in the Debate over Technology and Ecology in the Newfoundland Fishery, 1815-1855"
Paper presented to the conference on "Marine Resources and Human Societies in the North Atlantic since 1500", Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland. October 20-22, 1995.
• CADIGAN, S.T. "The Merging of Farm, Fishery and Wage Labour in Rural Newfoundland: A Long-Term Perspective"
Paper presented to the Social Science History Association, Chicago, Illinois. November 1995.
• CADIGAN, S.T. "A Shift in Economic Culture: The Impact of Enclave: Industrialization on Newfoundland, 1855-1880."
• COLBO, M.H. "The Sustainability of Watershed Health
• FISCHER, J., A. BRACE, R. CLARKE, W. DONOVAN, E. HUMBY, P. HUMBY, W. MCNAMARA, B. PETERS, L. ROWE, E. SMITH & J. SMITH. "What You Always Wanted to Know About Fish in Trinity Bay But Never Dared to Ask."
Fishing people of Chance Cove and Melrose/Catalina report. Eco-Research Program, Memorial University, St. John's, NF, Canada. 1997.
• GIEN, L., S. SOLBERG & K. STEVENS "Interdisciplinary Research: Opportunities and Challenges"
Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Atlantic Region of the Canadian Association of University Schools of Nursing (ARCAUSN), St. John's, Newfoundland. April 1995.
• HEATH-RODGERS, T. "Helpmates and Secondary Wage Earners: A Comparative Historiographical View of Women's Work in Newfoundland and Canada."
• JIN, L. and N. GOGAN
"Determination of Trace Metals and Copper Complexation in River Waters."
Proceedings presented at the EnviroAnalysis '96 Conference, May 13-16, 1996. Ottawa: p. 23-26.
• LOMOND, T.M. and M.H. COLBO "Comparison of Macroinvertebrate Lake Outlet Communities in Boreal Drainage Basins on the Avalon and Bonavista Peninsulas, Newfoundland."
• LOMOND, T.M. and J.M. PEREZ "Multivariate Statistics and Environmental Impact Assessments: Two Participants' Summary Notes."
• LOMOND, T.M., J.M. PEREZ, C. CUTLER & M.H. COLBO "A Preliminary Assessment of the Health of 23 Lake-Outlet Streams and Upstream Ponds Using 16 Measured Environmental Variables and Benthic Macroinvertebrates."
• NEIS, B., L. FELT, D.C. SCHNEIDER, R.L. HAEDRICH & J. FISCHER "Northern Cod Stock Assessment: What Can be Learned From Interviewing Resource Users?"
• NEIS, B. and R.L. HAEDRICH "Alternative Species, Old Challenges, New Methods: the Lumpfish Roe Fishery and Fishers' Ecological Knowledge in Newfoundland."
• NEIS, B., R. HAEDRICH, L. FELT & D.C. SCHNEIDER "Old Challenges, New Methods: the Lumpfish Roe Fishery and Fishers' Ecological Knowledge in the Bonavista Region of Newfoundland"
Revised version of paper presented to the Canadian Conference for Fisheries Research, Ottawa. January 1997.
• OMMER, R.E. "The Memorial Tri-Council Project. Sustainability in Rural Newfoundland: The Context"
Paper presented to the Scottish Association of Marine Science. Oban, Scotland, May 1994.
• OMMER, R.E. "The Memorial Tri-Council Study of Sustainability in Newfoundland"
Paper presented to the Bonavista Historical Association, Bonavista, NF. June 1994.
• OMMER, R.E. "Questions of Scale: Time, Space and Sustainability"
Paper presented to the Department of History, Memorial University, March 16, 1995.
• OMMER, R.E. "Sustainability in a Changing Cold Ocean Coastal Environment"
Paper presented to the Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, February 3, 1995.
• PARRISH, C.C. & S.M. BUDGE "Biogenic Markers in Trinity Bay: Implications for Assessing Ecosystem Health"
Paper presented at the Eco-Research Program Team Workshop, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NF. December 5-7, 1996.
ABSTRACT
• PEREZ, J.M., and M.H. COLBO "Comparison of the Composition and Structure of Two Dominant Lake-Outlet dipteran Communities (Diptera: Chironomidae, Simuliidae) to ground-cover loss (riparian and in the watershed) and Disturbance in Newfoundland, Canada."
Thesis Proposal submitted to the Biology Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
• RIPLEY, P. "Summary of a Working Paper Seminar on Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Management of the Inshore Fishery on the South Coast of Newfoundland"
Paper prepared for presentation as part of the Eco-Research Project Student Seminar Series. Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland. May 11, 1995.
• SINCLAIR, P. "Local Perceptions of Environmental & Economic Problems in Rural Newfoundland: Preliminary Results from the Eco-system Sustainability Project"
Paper presented to the MOST Sub-Regional Meeting. The University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway. March 30-31, 1995.
ABSTRACT
• SMIRNOV, A., E. BURDEN & P. DAVENPORT "Environmental History of the Bonavista Peninsula Headland, Northeastern Newfoundland"
Paper presented at the Eco-Research Program Team Workshop, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NF. December 5-7, 1996.
ABSTRACT
• STOREY, K. & B. SMITH "No Fish Everywhere: The Atlantic Groundfish Moratoria and Community Viability in Newfoundland"
Paper presented at the 1995 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, Quebec.
ABSTRACT
• WRIGHT, M. "Fishers, Scientists, the State and Their Responses to Declines in the Bonavista Fishery, 1957-1964"
Paper prepared for presentation at the "Marine Resources and Human Societies in the North Atlantic Since 1500" conference. Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland. October 20-22, 1995.
PUBLISHED PAPERS
• CADIGAN, S.T. "Failed Proposals for Fisheries Management and Conservation in Newfoundland, 1855-1880.
Forthcoming in Fishing People, Fishing Places: Issues in Canadian Small-Scale Fisheries, D. Newell and R. Ommer (eds). University of Toronto Press. In Press.
• FAVARO, Y., R. HELLEUR & J. ABRAJANO "Analysis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Marine Sediment Cores: Source Identification Through Molecular Characterization
ABSTRACT
• FELT, L., B. NEIS & B. MCCAY "Comanagement"
In Northwest Atlantic Groundfish: Management Alternatives for Sustainable Fisheries, Jim Wilson (ed.), published by the American Fisheries Society (1995).
ABSTRACT
• FISCHER, J. & R.L. HAEDRICH "Common Marine Fish Species and Ocean Temperatures Off Newfoundland"
Submitted for publication to the Ecological Monitoring Coordinating Office, Environment Canada. Also submitted for publication to Occasional Papers in Biology, Department of Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NF. In Press.
ABSTRACT
• FISCHER, J. & R.L. HAEDRICH "Niche Axes of Continental Shelf Fishes"
Canadian Zoological Meetings, St. John's, NF. In Press. May 7-11, 1996.
ABSTRACT
• FISCHER, J., R.L. HAEDRICH & P.R. SINCLAIR "Inter-ecosystem Impacts of Forage Fish Fisheries."
Accompanying text for slides
In Baxter, B. (Ed.) Role of Forage Fishes in Marine Ecosystems. Proceedings of a Conference on the Role of Forage Fish in Ecosystems. University of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska. November 13-15, 1996. Alaska Sea Grant College Program, AK-SG-97-01, 1997.
• GOMES, M.C. & R.L. HAEDRICH "Biogeography of Groundfish Assemblages on the Grand Bank"
Published in Journal of Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Science, Vol. 14: 13-27, (1992).
ABSTRACT
• GOMES, M.C., R.L. HAEDRICH & M.G. VILLAGARCIA "Spatial and Temporal Changes in the Groundfish Assemblages On the Northeast Newfoundland/Labrador Shelf, Northwest Atlantic, 1978-1991".
Published in Fisheries Oceanography, 4:2, 1995, pp 85-101.
ABSTRACT
• HAEDRICH, R.L. "Impact of Overfishing on Size Structure in a Shelf Fish Community"
Proceedings of the 3rd International Ichthyological Congress, Oviedo, Spain. Abstract and Poster. 1994.
• HAEDRICH, R.L. "Overfishing and the Biogeography of a Continental Shelf Fish Community"
Proceedings International Conference on Pelagic Biogeography, Nordwijkerhout, The Netherlands. July 10-15, 1995.
• HAEDRICH, R.L. "Perspectives on the Canadian East Coast Fishery Crisis"
In P. Gallaugher (ed.), 1995, "Getting the Missing Fish Story Straight - The East Coast Fishery Crisis and Pacific Salmon Fisheries: Facts and Suggestions". Forum Proceedings, Simon Fraser University, pp. 12-19.
• HAEDRICH, R.L. "Structure Over Time of an Exploited Deep Water Fish Assemblage"
In A.G. Hopper (ed.), Deep Water Fisheries of the North Atlantic Oceanic Slope, (Proc. NATO Adv. Res. Workshop), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 70-96, 1995.
• HAEDRICH, R.L. & J. FISCHER "Stability and Change of Exploited Fish Communities in a Cold Ocean Continental Shelf Ecosystem"
Senckenbergiana Maritima 27(3/6): 237-243. 1996.
• HAEDRICH, R.L. & J. FISCHER "Variability in the Niche Space Occupied by Fishes Over Time in an Increasingly Disturbed Ecosystem"
Proceedings of the ELAWAT Workshop on "Disturbances in Coastal Marine Ecosystems", Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Abstract. February 1997.
• HAEDRICH, R.L., J. FISCHER & N.V. CHERNOVA "Ocean Temperatures and Demersal Fish Abundance on the Northeast Newfoundland Continental Shelf"
Proceedings 30th Eur. Mar. Biol. Symposium, Southampton, UK. September 18-22, 1995.
Draft of paper.
• HAEDRICH, R.L., M.G. VILLAGARCIA & M.C. GOMES "Scale of Marine Protected Areas on Newfoundland's Continental Shelf"
Offprint from : N.L. Shackell and J.H.M. Willison (eds.), 1995, Marine Protected Areas and Sustainable Fisheries, Proc. 2nd International Conference on Science and the Management of Protected Areas, Halifax, Nova Scotia. May 1994, pp. 48-53.
• HUTCHINGS, J.A. "Government-Sponsored Fisheries Science and the Collapse of Newfoundland Cod".
Forthcoming in Fishing People, Fishing Places: Issues in Canadian Small-Scale Fisheries, D. Newell and R. Ommer (eds). University of Toronto Press. In Press.
ABSTRACT
• HUTCHINGS, J.A. "Spatial and Temporal Variation in the Density of Northern Cod and a Review of Hypotheses for the Stock's Collapse."
Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 53: 943-962. 1996.
ABSTRACT
• HUTCHINGS, J.A. & R.A. MYERS "The Biological Collapse of Atlantic Cod Off Newfoundland and Labrador: An Exploration of Historical Changes in Exploitation, Harvesting Technology, and Management"
In The North Atlantic Fisheries - Successes, Failures and Challenges, Edited by Ragnar Arnason and Lawrence Felt. An Island Living Series, Volume 3. The Institute of Island Studies, 1995. Charlottetown, PEI.
ABSTRACT
• HUTCHINGS, J.A. & R.A. MYERS "What Can Be Learned From the Collapse of a Renewable Resource? Atlantic Cod, Gadus morhua, of Newfoundland and Labrador"
Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 51: 2126-2146 (1994).
ABSTRACT
• HUTCHINGS, J.A., B. NEIS & P. RIPLEY "The "Nature" of Cod (Gadus Morhua): Perceptions of Stock Structure and Cod Behaviour by Fishermen, "Experts" and Scientists from the Nineteenth Century to the Present".
In Conference Proceedings Marine Resources and Human Societies in the North Atlantic since 1550. Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland. October 20-22, 1995.
• LANGTON, R.W., P.J. AUSTER & D.C. SCHNEIDER "A Spatial and Temporal Perspective on Research and Management of Groundfish in the Northwest Atlantic"
Published in "Reviews in Fisheries Science", 3(3): 201-229 (1995).
ABSTRACT
• LANGTON, R.W. & R.L. HAEDRICH "Ecosystem-Based Management of Northwest Atlantic Groundfish"
Submitted for publication in: Northwest Atlantic Groundfish: Management Alternatives for Sustainable Fisheries, American Fisheries Society, Northwest Atlantic Groundfish Steering Committee (editors). 1995.
• NEIS, B. "Cut Adrift"
Samudra Report. No. 16: 35-39. November 1996.
• NEIS, B. "Fishers' Ecological Knowledge and Marine Protected Areas"
In Nancy Shackell & J.H. Martin Willison (eds.), Marine Protected Areas and Sustainable Fisheries. Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Science and Management of Protected Areas Association, pp: 265-274. 1995.
• NEIS, B. and L. FELT "Fisheries Science and Local Ecological Knowledge in the Northwest Atlantic: Building Bridges"
Paper prepared for presentation at the Japan-Canada Fisheries Conference. Antigonish, Nova Scotia. September 18-22, 1995. Published in Proceedings Japan-Canada Fisheries Conference.
• NEIS, B., L. FELT, R.L. HAEDRICH & D. SCHNEIDER "An Interdisciplinary Methodology for Collecting and Integrating Fishers' Ecological Knowledge into Resource Management"
Forthcoming in Fishing Places, Fishing People: Issues in Canada Small-Scale Fisheries. D. Newell and R. Ommer, (eds.). University of Toronto Press. In Press.
• NEIS, B., J.J. MAGUIRE, & P. SINCLAIR "What are we Managing Anyway? The Need for an Interdisciplinary Approach to Managing Fisheries Ecosystem."
Dalhousie Law Journal. Special Issue on The Atlantic Canadian Fisheries.
• OMMER, R.E. "A Lesson for the World"
World Fishing Industry Review (1995)
• OMMER, R.E. "Deep Water Fisheries, Policy and Management Issues, and the Sustainability of Fishing Communities"
Deep Water Fisheries of the North Atlantic Oceanic Slope
A.G. Hopper (ed). (Proc. NATO Advanced Research Workshop), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht (1995).
• OMMER, R.E. "Policy, Fisheries Management and Development in Rural Newfoundland".
In A.W. Gilg et al. (eds.), Progress in Rural Policy and Planning, Vol. 5, pp 171-187 (1995).
• OMMER, R.E. & J.K. HILLER "One Hundred Years of Fishery Crises in Newfoundland"
In Acadiensis, XXIII, 2(Spring 1994), pp. 5-20.
• OMMER, R.E. & P.R. SINCLAIR "Systemic Crisis in Rural Newfoundland: Can the Outports Survive?"
• PULCHAN, J., T.A. ABRAJANO & R. HELLEUR "Characterization of Thermochemolysis Products of Near-Shore Marine Sediments Using Gas Chromatography/ Mass Spectrometry and Gas Chromatography/ Combustion/ Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry"
• SINCLAIR, P.R. "Sustainable Development in Fisheries-Dependent Regions? Reflections on the Newfoundland Cod Fisheries".
Paper presented to the European Society for Rural Sociology, Prague, Czech Republic, July 30 - August 4, 1995 and published in Sociologia Ruralis, vol. 36, Number 2, August 1996 pp. 225-235.
• SINCLAIR, P.R. with H. SQUIRES & L. DOWNTON "A Future Without Fish? Constructing Social Life on Newfoundland's Bonavista Peninsula After the Cod Moratorium".
Forthcoming in Fishing People, Fishing Places: Issues in Canada's Small-Scale Fisheries, D. Newell and R. Ommer, (eds) . University of Toronto Press. In Press.
• STOREY, K. & B. SMITH "Collapse in the Newfoundland Groundfish Fishery: Responses, Constraints and Opportunities"
In S.T.F. Johansen (ed.), Nordiske fiskersamfund i fremtiden, Vol. 1: Fiskeri og fiskersamfund - baeredyktighed og innovationer. K benhavn: Nordisk Ministerrad, pp: 163-188.
• VILLAGARCIA, M.G., R.L. HAEDRICH & J. FISCHER
"Groundfish Assemblages of Eastern Canada Examined Over Two Decades"
Forthcoming in Fishing People, Fishing Places: Issues in Canadian Small-Scale Fisheries, D. Newell and R. Ommer (eds). University of Toronto Press. In Press.
THESES
• EVANS, N. "Characterizing Atmospheric Sulphur Using Lichen and Rain in Eastern Newfoundland."
Paper submitted to the Department of Earth Sciences as partial fulfilment for the degree of Bachelor of Science (Hons.).
ABSTRACT
• POWER, N.G. "Women, Processing Industries and the Environment: A sociological analysis of women fish and crab processing workers' local ecological knowledge".
A thesis submitted to the School of Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts. Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NF. March 1997.
• SHERWOOD, A.R. "Natural and Artificial Substratum Colonization by Periphytic Diatoms in Newfoundland Streams"
Paper submitted in partial fulfillment for the degree of Bachelor of Science (Honours Co-op), Dalhousie University. December 5, 1995.
• WRIGHT, M. "Newfoundland and Canada: The Evolution of Fisheries Development Policies, 1940-1966"
A thesis submitted to the School of Graduate Studies in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.