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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 The marine fisheries sector is one of the most important income sectors in South Africa and plays an important role in food security for small-scale and subsistence fishers.
Kelly Ortega-Cisneros +5 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Chondrichthyes, an ancient and diverse class of vertebrates, are crucial to the health of marine ecosystems. Excessive demand for chondrichthyan products has increased fishing pressure, threatening ∼30% of species with extinction in recent decades. India
Shaili Johri +10 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 The franciscana is endemic to subtropical coastal waters of Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina, and is the only living species of the family Pontoporiidae. It is regarded as the most endangered cetacean in the western South Atlantic.
Eduardo R. Secchi +4 more
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Wild and Farmed Arctic Charr as a Tourism Product in an Era of Climate Change
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 The topic investigated is the social-ecological system of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) fishing and aquaculture as a tourism product in an era of climate change. Arctic charr is a resilient salmonid species that was traditionally an important part of
Guðrún Helgadóttir +7 more
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Fishing Industry of Kalmykia: 1926–1932
Oriental Studies, 2020 Introduction. The article analyzes the development of Kalmykia’s fishing industry between 1926 and 1932. Goals. The paper seeks to review the formation and development processes within the regional fishing industry during the NEP era, providing insight
Andrey K. Mandzhiev
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Environmental DNA, 2021 Biodiversity assessment is an important part of conservation management that ideally can be accomplished with noninvasive methods without influencing the structure and functioning of ecosystems.
Seyedeh Fatemeh Afzali +6 more
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Effects of stochasticity and social norms on complex dynamics of fisheries [PDF]
Phys. Rev. E 103, 022401 (2021), 2020 Recreational fishing is a highly socio-ecological process. Although recreational fisheries are self-regulating and resilient, changing anthropogenic pressure drives these fisheries to overharvest and collapse. Here, we evaluate the effect of demographic and environmental stochasticity for a social-ecological two-species fish model.
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Between 2009 and 2020, beam trawlers in the North Sea switched to electrical stimulation to target sole (Solea solea). The transition to pulse trawling raised widespread concern about possible adverse effects of electrical stimulation on marine organisms.
Edward Schram +4 more
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Certifying the commons: eco-certification, privatization, and collective action
Ecology and Society, 2014 We examine new dynamics of privatization and collective action in common pool resource situations facilitated by the nonstate multistakeholder institutions of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), the global leader in sustainability certification for ...
Paul Foley, Bonnie McCay
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The codevelopment of coastal fisheries monitoring methods to support local management
Ecology and Society, 2016 Small-scale fisheries across the globe provide critical food security, livelihoods, and human well-being, but are threatened by a combination of local and global stressors, including overexploitation, pollution, and climate change.
Eva Schemmel +8 more
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