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'An absolute gem... I was delightfully lost by the river throughout'Paul Whitehouse'Marvellous... The Catch leaves both its writer and its reader wonderfully'lost in water''Robert Macfarlane'Penetrating and poetic, filled with honeyed prose and thoughtful criticism'The TimesA brilliant blend of memoir and biography, The Catch is a stunning meditation on poetry and nature, and a quiet reflection on what it means to be a father and a son._______________It is in the midst of a swirling river, casting a line, that Mark Wormald meets Ted Hughes. He stands where the poet stood, forty years ago, because fishing was Ted Hughes's way of breathing – and because the poet's writing has made Mark understand that it has always been his way of breathing, too.Using Hughes's poetry collection River and his fishing diaries as a guide, Mark returns again and again to the rivers and lakes in Britain and Ireland where the poet fished. At times, he uses Ted's fly patterns; at others his rods. It is an obsession; a fundamental connection to nature; a thrilling wildness; an elemental pursuit. But it is also a release and a consolation, as Mark fishes after the sudden death of his mother and during the slow fading of his father.

'Eagle, a chef and food writer, uses a nine-dish lunch as the occasion to ruminate about cooking, and life'(New York Times Book Review). First, Catch is a cookbook without recipes, an invitation to journey through the digressive mind of a chef at work, and a hymn to a singular nine-dish festive spring lunch. In Eagle's kitchen, open shelves reveal colorful jars of vegetables pickling over the course of months, and a soffritto of onions, celery, and carrots cook slowly under a watchful gaze in a skillet heavy enough to double as a murder weapon. Eagle has both the sharp eye of a food scientist as he tries to identify the seventeen unique steps of boiling water, as well as of that of a roving food historian as he ponders what the spice silphium tasted like to the Romans, who over-ate it to worldwide extinction. He is a tour guide to the world of ingredients, a culinary explorer, and thoughtful commentator on the ways immigration, technology, and fashion has changed the way we eat. He is also a food philosopher, asking the question: at what stage does cooking begin? Is it when we begin to apply heat or acid to ingredients? Is it when we gather and arrange what we will cook—and perhaps start to salivate? Or does it start even earlier, in the wandering late-morning thought,'What should I eat for lunch?'Irreverent and charming, yet also illuminating and brilliantly researched, First, Catch encourages us to slow down and focus on what it means to cook. With this astonishing and beautiful book, Thom Eagle joins the ranks of great food writers like M.F.K. Fisher, Alice Waters, and Samin Nosrat in offering us inspiration to savor, both in and out of the kitchen. Winner of the Fortnum and Mason's Debut Food Book Award Shortlisted for the 2018 Andre Simon Food & Drink Book of the Year BBC Radio 4 Food Programme Best Foodbooks of 2018 Times Best Food Books of 2018 Financial Times Summer Food Books of 2018'A contemplation of cooking and eating, a return to the great tradition of food writing inspired by M.F.K. Fisher's The Gastronomical Me... Eagle writes with a wit and sharpness that can turn a chapter on fermenting pickles into a riff on death and decay while still making it seem like something you would like to put in your mouth.'—Mark Haskell Smith, Los Angeles Times'In two dozen short chapters linked like little sausages, he serves up a bounty of fresh, often tart opinions about food and cooking... Eagle is a natural teacher; his enthusiasm and broad view of food preparation is both instructive and inspiring... Eagle's prose, while conversational in tone, is as crafted and layered as his cuisine. Never bland, it is also brightly seasoned with strong opinions... Rare among food writing, this book is bound to change the way you think about your next meal.'—Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor

The gripping story of a young woman's murder, unsolved for over two decades, brilliantly investigated and reconstructed by her stepsister.Growing up, Rachel Rear knew the story of Stephanie Kupchynsky's disappearance. The beautiful violinist and teacher had fled an abusive relationship on Martha's Vineyard and made a new start for herself near Rochester, NY. She was at the height of her life-in a relationship with a man she hoped to marry and close to her students and her family. And then, one morning, she was gone.Around Rochester-a region which has spawned such serial killers as Arthur Shawcross and the “Double Initial” killer-Stephanie's disappearance was just a familiar sort of news item. But Rachel had more reason than most to be haunted by this particular story of a missing woman: Rachel's mother had married Stephanie's father after the crime, and Rachel grew up in the shadow of her stepsister's legacy.In Catch the Sparrow, Rachel Rear writes a compulsively readable and unerringly poignant reconstruction of the case's dark and serpentine path across more than two decades. Obsessively cataloging the crime and its costs, drawing intimately closer to the details than any journalist could, she reveals how a dysfunctional justice system laid the groundwork for Stephanie's murder and stymied the investigation for more than twenty years, and what those hard years meant for the lives of Stephanie's family and loved ones. Startling, unputdownable, and deeply moving, Catch the Sparrow is a retelling of a crime like no other.

Hook-and-line fishing is commonly used in South African inland fisheries; however, very little quantitative information on catch and effort exists, even though it is essential to advise management of the sector. To provide information towards management of South Africa's largest impoundment, the Gariep Dam, roving creel surveys were conducted to quantify annual fish harvest and to identify changes in fisher catch, effort and harvest data in comparison to historic data. The surveys were also conducted during the Covid-19 pandemic which presented an additional opportunity to describe fishery dynamics during the pandemic. Randomly stratified sampling was conducted from November 2020 to October 2021, in which catch and effort data of hook-and-line fishers were collected. Two fishery user groups were encountered: recreational and subsistence users were present, but the fishery was dominated by subsistence fishers. There was a more skewed dominance between these fisher groups than what was found during similar surveys in 2007/2008. Catch per unit effort was similar to previous estimates, at 0.51 kg·fisher-1·h-1 (95% CI:0.47-0.54). There was, however, a significant reduction in fishing effort during the sampling period when compared to historic data, and estimated annual total harvest was only one third of what was previously reported. It was also noted that recreational fishers avoided fishing during the Covid-19 pandemic, whereas the subsistence fishers could not avoid fishing as it is their primary means of livelihood. The results of the study suggested that subsistence fisheries provide valuable livelihood support to communities, and serve as an example on what impacts a crisis such as a global pandemic may have on inland fisheries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The blue swimming crab (Portunus pelagicus) constitutes a vital component of Thailand’s small-scale fisheries, particularly in Ao Por, Phuket Island, where bottom-set gillnets are widely used by small-scale fishers. Despite its ecological and economic significance, little is known about the operational dynamics and biological characteristics of this traditional fishery. This study provides a short-term, multi-dimensional assessment of the P. pelagicus fishery based on onboard observations and biometric data collected over 68 fishing trips conducted during the 2024 fishing season (June to September). We identified spatially consistent deployment zones around Naka Yai Island, with bottom-set gillnets typically set in parallel to the shoreline along a north–south axis. Monthly variations in fishing trips and catch amount were evident, with the highest number of trips and landings recorded in July and August. Mean (± standard deviation) catch per unit effort (CPUE) declined progressively from 0.64 ± 0.15 kg/panel in June to 0.39 ± 0.17 kg/panel in September. Biometric analysis of 1824 crabs (1156 males, 668 females) revealed sex-specific growth patterns, with males exhibiting positive allometry (b = 3.210 ± 0.0337, p 

Populations of many elasmobranchs have decreased globally, with over a third of species threatened with an elevated risk of extinction, largely due to fishing pressure. In West Africa, a general lack of species-specific catch data limits the ability to implement effective management, despite significant elasmobranch catch. The aim of this study was to (1) assess landings of mobulid rays, along with other elasmobranch species, recorded opportunistically in fisheries from Guinean waters, (2) provide information on the value and trade of these species, and (3) discuss management implications. Elasmobranchs were photographed and identified during market surveys over a ten-month period in 2014 and 2015, at four local Guinean fish markets: Bonfi, Boulbinet, Kassa, and Kamsar. A total of 1954 specimens, comprising 17 different elasmobranch species, were recorded across all markets. Of these species, 94% are assessed as threatened (vulnerable, endangered, critically endangered) and 6% are assessed as Near Threatened on the IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species. The only mobulid species recorded was Mobula thurstoni, with significantly larger specimens recorded in Boulbinet, while in Bonfi fishing grounds overlapped with young-of-the-year specimens. When considering all elasmobranch landings, Bonfi and Boulbinet had similar species compositions, although when considering daily data, species composition tended to differ. Indicator Species Analysis indicated that Carcharhinus falciformis, Carcharhinus leucas, and Mustelus mustelus were top indicator species for Bonfi (with high specificity and fidelity), while Paragaleus pectoralis and Gymnura sereti were key indicator species for Boulbinet. Records of selling price at Bonfi were higher for various stingray species than larger shark species, suggesting meat as a primary driver of the fishery. This study adds insight into the species composition of elasmobranch catch in West Africa and highlights specific fishing sectors contributing to elasmobranch exploitation locally; information which is needed to understand the effects on regional stocks.

About coming out and coming of age. In Catch and Release, twenty-one-year-old Lucca looks back on her childhood and adolescence as she comes to terms with both her sexual orientation and her mental illness. When she falls in love with the brilliant and beautiful Adèle, Lucca is forced to acknowledge not only that she is not and never has been straight, but also that her relationship with a teacher in high school was not as harmless as she might have thought.

The efficiency of different shapes of J hooks No. 11 (nonoffset straight hook, 10° offset kirbed hook, and 10° offset reversed hook) in needlefish longline fishing gears was studied in 24 fishing grounds in Palk Bay, India, from, February to July 2022. A total of 24 fishing trips were conducted for each experimental gear for the comparative study, with 14,400 hooks, with a total catch of 582 fish during the study. The result was that the kirbed hook had the highest percentage composition of the needlefish (37.36%), followed by the reversed hook (31.79%) and the straight hook (30.75%). Further, the overall hooking rate was higher for the kirbed hook than for the straight hook (13.43% vs. 8.60%). Considering the catch rate, the overall catch per unit effort (CPUE; individual/200 hooks) of the kirbed hook was higher (9.08 vs. 7.45) than that of the straight hook, whereas for the straight hook, the CPUE of nontarget species (0.29) was much higher than that of the kirbed hook (0.12). In terms of the targeted species, the Ablennes hians showed the highest CPUE of 3.78 individuals/200 hooks followed by Tylosurus crocodilus crocodilus (1.78), Strongylura strongylura (1.38); the least dominant CPUE was T. choram (0.94). The percentage of hooking position in the jaw was higher in the kirbed hook than that of the straight hook (64.7% vs. 39.1%) and was found lower in the gut system (11.5% vs. 28.5%). Among the three hook shapes tested, the overall performance of the 10° offset kirbed hook was found to be better than the other 10° offset reversed and nonoffset J hook in terms of a higher catch efficiency, hooking rate, CPUE, and hooking position for needlefish (< 0.05).

Repurposing existing commercial diagnostic equipment to enable portable analysis of diverse targets is driving the development of affordable point-of-care testing (POCT). Interestingly, we found that goat antimouse IgG could replace human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) to make the T line of pregnancy test strips (PTS) appear red color and accordingly synthesized a novel signal output probe, which eliminated the intricate hCG covalent coupling steps, and could meet the multiple needs of expanded POCT. Given this, we introduced a novel separation-free universal POCT strategy termed bioamplifier-equipped CRISPR-Cas12a transduction system coupled with PTS to harness signal-on detection (BE-CATCH). Specifically, target inputs were converted and amplified by the multiplied strand displacement amplification-based bioamplifier, thereby activating Cas12a’s trans-cleavage activity. Then, the activated Cas12a would cleave the connector indiscriminately, which ultimately kept the signal output probe in a free state; thus, the inputs could be translated into a colorimetric signal on the PTS. This strategy not only provided boosted sensitivity and specificity but also enhanced user-friendliness by maintaining the signal-on detection mode. We also demonstrated the versatility of the BE-CATCH strategy through selectively detecting miR-155 and flap endonuclease 1. Given its broad adaptability, the BE-CATCH strategy could provide an appealing option to broaden the application of PTS in biomedical diagnostics.

Retirement is the perfect time to travel the country, enjoy the grandkids—and solve some murders... Retired robbery/homicide detective Hank Moran and his wife, Helen, are off on another adventure darting around the country in their motorhome. They'd like to make a stop in Amish country—just a little detour on their way to the White House, where they've been invited for dinner with the president as well as the senator whose life Hank recently saved. But most of all they look forward to spending time with their grandson Chip, and taking him on a pleasant weekend fishing trip to a Louisiana state park. But Chip hooks into something a bit more interesting than a five-pound bass...

본 연구는 영화 및 TV 드라마 오프닝 타이틀에 적용된 모 션그래픽 디자인이 의미를 생산하는 방식을 찰스 샌더스 퍼 스(Charles Sanders Peirce)의 기호학 이론에 기반하여 분석 하였다. 초기 영화 오프닝은 단순한 정보 전달에 머물렀으나, 기술과 디자인의 발전을 통해 오늘날 오프닝은 서사, 주제, 정서를 압축적으로 전달하는 독립적 예술 형식으로 진화하였 다. 따라서 오프닝의 의미작용 방식을 독립 장르로서 이해할 필요가 있다. 본 연구는 문헌 조사, 기호학적 분석, 사례 연구, 시각적 내용 분석을 종합적으로 활용하였다. 분석 틀로는 퍼 스의 삼원론(도상, 지표, 상징)을 적용하였으며, 분석 대상으 로 모션그래픽 기법이 활용된 영화 캐치 미 이프 유 캔(2002) 과 TV 드라마 퓨드(2017)의 오프닝을 선정하였다. 이들 오프 닝에 나타난 시각적 요소, 운동 효과, 장면 구성을 다각도로 살피고, 요소 간 상호작용을 심층적으로 분석하였다. 이를 통 해 두 작품의 오프닝은 각각의 시각 요소가퍼스의 기호학 범 주에 따라 유기적으로 결합되어 작품의 주요 서사 구조와 정 서를 효과적으로 전달하고 있음을 확인하였다. 결론적으로 본 연구는 퍼스 기호학을 활용한 분석이 모션그래픽 오프닝 의 의미 생성 구조를 해석하는 데 효과적인 이론적 틀을 제공 함을 입증하였으며, 나아가 오프닝이 서사적 함의와 감정적 긴장의 단서를 제시하는 함축적인 장치로서 기능하며, 모션 그래픽은 이를 시각적으로 조직하는 주요 매개체로 작용한다 는 사실을 확인하였다. 이러한 분석은 오늘날의 영상 커뮤니 케이션 연구의 흐름 속에서 시각 디자인 이론의 적용 범위를 확장하고 오프닝의 내러티브적·정서적 가능성에 대한 학문적 논의를 심화하는 데 기여할 것으로 기대된다.

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