The first articulated skeletons of enigmatic Late Cretaceous billfish-like actinopterygians [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Only few candidates of Mesozoic fishes with a similar body plan and ecological niche to the modern billfishes are suggested as their analogues. Several specimens were recovered from Cenomanian deposits in Germany and Lebanon and display a billfish-like ...
Tamara El Hossny +5 more
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Author Correction: A global, historical database of tuna, billfish, and saury larval distributions [PDF]
Scientific DataKristine Camille V. Buenafe +8 more
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Assessment of the Impact on 20 Pelagic Fish Species by the Taiwanese Small-Scale Longline Fishery in the Western North Pacific Using Ecological Risk Assessment [PDF]
Animals, 2022 Ecological risk assessment (ERA) has been applied on assessing the relative risk of bycatch species in recent years. ERA index is calculated by productivity of species and susceptibility of fisheries on fish species.
Kwang-Ming Liu +2 more
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Perceptions towards governance of billfish resource use: The lens of artisanal fishers in Kenya
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Multiple fisher groups target billfish species, each with different motivations and experiences, which can influence the effectiveness and sustainability of governance approaches.
Damaris Njeri Kinyua +4 more
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Vertebrate Anatomy, Morphology, Palaeontology, 2020 A partial billfish rostrum from the Chandler Bridge Formation (Early Chattian, Oligocene) near Ladson, South Carolina, U.S.A., is described and identified as Xiphiorhynchus sp. cf. aegyptiacus.
William McCuen +2 more
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Environmental influences and ontogenetic differences in vertical habitat use of black marlin (Istiompax indica) in the southwestern Pacific [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 The black marlin (Istiompax indica) is a highly migratory billfish that occupies waters throughout the tropical and subtropical Indo-Pacific. To characterize the vertical habitat use of I.
Samuel M. Williams +5 more
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Environmental DNA as a tool to reconstruct catch composition for longline fisheries vessels [PDF]
Scientific ReportsGlobal wild-capture fisheries are a large and diverse sector requiring various tools for fisheries-dependant data collection and effective Monitoring, Control and Surveillance (MCS).
M. E. Green +3 more
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Forensic Science International: Animals and Environments, 2021 DNA Barcode were used to identify species Billfishes and swordfish Xiphias gladius appeared as the only billfish species exported in Brazil. This system has been used successfully in the identification of species and samples not characterized, or ...
Carlos E. Rodrigues, Jr. +5 more
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Aquatic Living Resources, 2020 The Strait of Messina is located at the centre of the Mediterranean Sea and is considered a biodiversity hotspot and an obligatory seasonal passage for different pelagic species such as sharks, marine mammals, and billfishes.
Malara Danilo +7 more
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Consequences of ocean scale hypoxia constrained habitat for tropical pelagic fishes [PDF]
, 2007 Large areas of cold hypoxic water occur as distinct strata in the eastern tropical Pacific and Atlantic oceans as a result of high productivity initiated by intense nutrient upwelling.
Goodyear, C.P., Prince, Eric D.
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