Quality Marine history

South Australian oyster fishers with their gear (top; State Library of SA, B54098) and a snippet from a late 19th century newspaper article airing concerns about the overexploitation of oyster reefs (Adelaide Observer, 14 January 1899).

Sperry Gyrocompass was founded in 1910 by American Elmer Ambrose Sperry to manufacture his inventions of navigation equipment.

The Commandant of the Marine Corps established Marine Barracks Quantico on May 14, 1917.

In 1920, Marine Corps Schools was founded, and in the words of then-Chief of Staff for Quantico, Col.

When the headquarters of the FMF left in 1941, Quantico’s main task became the education of individual Marines, rather than the large unit training it had conducted in the past.

In 1947, Quantico Marines conceived of carrying troops from ship-to-shore by helicopter and formed a special squadron to test the idea: Marine Helicopter Squadron-1, commonly referred to now as HMX-1.

Decca Radar launched its first marine radar, the 159, in August 1949.

Since 1960, North Sea cod (Gadus morhua) has experienced phases of expansion, overfishing, and recovery.

1, 1968, the base was re-designated the Marine Corps Development and Education Command (MCDEC) in the spirit of the command motto, “Semper Progredi” — Always Forward.

The boat was sold by the firm in the mid 30s and all contact was lost until 1981, when the new owners, Max and Jackie Pentecost of Wilmington, California, contacted the Sea-Dog Line.

During the summer of 1987, Quantico planners studied more efficient and streamlined ways in which MCDEC could ensure the Marine Corps of the future would be the best trained, led, disciplined, and equipped fighting force on the planet.

Marine Corps University was also established in 1989 to provide the structure and policy for professional military education Corps-wide.

The Marine Corps Research, Development and Acquisition Command, the precursor to today’s Marine Corps Systems Command, began moving to Quantico in 1990.

Quality Marine Services Pte Ltd was founded in 1994, with 4 staff, in the servicing field of Marine Navigation and Communication Equipment.

The Department of Defense established the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate in 1997 to provide the military with greater flexibility in dealing with the challenges of Military Operations Other Than War.

In 1998, Headquarters Marine Corps moved Manpower and Reserve Affairs (M&RA) and Marine Corps Recruiting Command to Quantico from the Navy Annex in Arlington, Va.

Headquartered in the United Kingdom, Sperry Marine is since 2001 part of Northrop Grumman Corporation and is a worldwide supplier of navigation, communication, information and automation systems for commercial marine and naval markets.

Moreover, in practice, historical baselines may be difficult to apply to the determination of targets for sustainable management in the absence of a clear correlation with human impact or initial state (WGGES, 2011). The use of historical data can also be challenging in reconciling issues of scale.

The regulations introduced did not effectively curb rising effort in both recreational and commercial sectors, and catch rates remained low, decreased further, or collapsed (Winker et al., 2012).

Science Europe (2013) singled out MHE as one of “12 compelling cases for policy makers” of the relevance of research.

These trends are likely to continue and potentially worsen (IPCC, 2014). Marine research needs to focus beyond the impacts of climate change on commercially valuable stocks to include the broader consequences for marine ecosystem structure and functioning.

Also, citations to studies citing both terms “shifting baselines” and “marine”. From Google Scholar (extracted 14 May 2015).

Data extracted from short, popular newspaper articles describing this fishery formed an important source of information in the Thurstan et al. (2016) study on long-term trends in snapper fisheries.

The base will celebrate its centennial in 2017.