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Salmon Tracking in the River Dee (1989 Video)

Subject

Agriculture; Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 23 min., 1999 sale: £15.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

Describes how adult salmon are tagged with radio transmitters and followed through the year as they ascend the River Dee in Scotland. Shows spawning behaviour and includes underwater film of the interaction...

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Smoke (1991 Video)

Director

Maarten Rens

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 28 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Deals with fish smoking in Monnickendam, a small town near Amsterdam. Using archival footage, interviewing old fishermen, and contrasting the traditional and the modern industrial way to smoke fish, the film...

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Fishing at the Stone Weir (1967 Film, Video)

Director

Asen Balikci; Quentin Brown

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The series shows how life used to be among the Netsilik when they still lived apart and depended on the land and their own ingenuity to sustain life through the rigours of the Arctic year. The filming was...

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Mathematical Modelling: Populations (1998 Video)

aka: Population Modelling

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min., 1999 sale: £35.00 (+VAT +p&p) VHS, higher education 1999 sale: £55.00 (+VAT +p&p) VHS, non-higher education 1999 sale: £150.00 (+VAT +p&p) higher education - master tape for re-editing and copying 2000 sale: £35.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) VHS, higher education

Introduces the concept of mathematical modelling by applying it to the prediction of the growth of fish stocks in the North Sea. Researchers must first determine the age of fish being caught before...

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Darwin’s Nightmare (2010)

Director

Hubert Sauper

Subject

Development studies; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 111 minutes)

The African nation of Tanzania has a booming business selling fish to Europe, but its citizens live in a state of horrific poverty and degradation. Filmmaker Hubert Sauper uses his documentary DARWIN’S...

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Trap Fishing for Cuttlefish (1996 Video)

Subject

Agriculture; Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 24 min.

Looks at the results of a two-year project to develop a method of targeting the non-pressure stocks of cuttlefish which seasonally visit the inshore fishing grounds in the English Channel. Includes...

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Anatomy of the Dogfish, The (1949 Film)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An analysis of dogfish anatomy shown by photographs of the living fish, detailed dissections and animated diagrams. A study of the habits and external features of the fish is followed by microphotographs of...

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Phrynelox Scaber ('Antennariidae’): Feeding by Angling (1969 Film)

Director

W Wickler

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

'Phrynelox scaber’ belongs to the angler fish family. The first dorsal fin spine, the illicium, serves this fish as ‘tackle’ for the catching of prey. It is situated right at the front of the head...

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Optimisation of a Species Selective Beam Trawl (1996 Video)

Subject

Agriculture; Biology

Distribution

Free, Videocassette. VHS. col. 14 min., Copies available free of charge.

Looks at an EU-supported beam trawl research project set up as a co-operative venture between institutes in Belgium, the Netherlands and the UK which ran for three years from October 1993. The most promising...

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In the Oceans (1998 Video)

Director

Anthony Howard

Producer

Murray Weston

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 59 min., 2000 sale: £25.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

Jacqueline McGlade of the NERC Centre for Coastal and Marine Science discusses with a small group including schoolchildren, satellite, ship survey and computer modelling studies of the workings of the marine...

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