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The impact of deep-sea fisheries and implementation of the UNGA Resolutions 61/105 and 64/72. Report of an international scientific workshop [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The scientific workshop to review fisheries management, held in Lisbon in May 2011, brought together 22 scientists and fisheries experts from around the world to consider the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) resolutions on high seas bottom ...
A. Benn   +22 more
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Assessing the impact of fisheries-related mortality of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) caused by incidental bycatch in the dynamic Norwegian gillnet fisheries

open access: yes, 2020
Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) bycatch for Norwegian commercial gillnet fisheries from 2006 to 2018 was estimated using a traditional ratio estimator and generalized additive linear mixed models, with weight of fish landed and number of gillnet ...
A. Moan   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Classification of European Illex coindetii and Loligo forbesii Squid Stocks by Trace Element Analysis of Statoliths

open access: yesFisheries Management and Ecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigated whether statolith microchemistry analysis could classify ommastrephid and loliginid squid species into fishery stocks. Statolith nucleus (early life stage) and edge (life stage at time before catch) of Illex coindetii (Verany, 1839) and Loligo forbesii (Steenstrup, 1856) from various areas of the North East Atlantic Ocean and ...
Bianca T. C. Bobowski   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Empty Rivers: The Decline of River Herring and the Need to Reduce Mid-Water Trawl Bycatch [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Examines the effects of industrial mid-water trawlers on river herring populations along the East Coast and makes recommendations for how to protect herring ...
Amy Schick Kenney
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Review of National Laws and Regulations in China in Relation to the Precautionary Approach to Fisheries Management

open access: yesFisheries Management and Ecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The precautionary approach has been widely accepted as an important guideline in international, regional, and national fisheries management. The United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement provided a foundational framework for the application of the precautionary approach in fisheries management.
Xiao‐lin Chu
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying Priorities for Shark Conservation in the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2019
Fisheries bycatch is known as the major threat to Threatened shark species (herein, sharks, skates, and rays) in Bangladesh. But bycatch is not appropriately addressed under the existing wildlife and fisheries conservation management regime.
Mahatub Khan Badhon   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

European Shark Fisheries: A Preliminary Investigation into Fisheries, Conversion Factors, Trade Products, Markets and Management Measures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Recommends new regulations to prevent shark finning -- an illegal practice in which a shark's fins are removed and its carcass dumped at sea -- and stresses the urgent need for effective shark conservation ...
Bernard Seret   +11 more
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Disentangling the causes of protected‐species bycatch in gillnet fisheries [PDF]

open access: yesConservation Biology, 2017
Abstract Gillnet fisheries are widely thought to pose a conservation threat to many populations of marine mammals, seabirds, and turtles. Gillnet fisheries also support a significant proportion of small‐scale fishing communities worldwide. Despite a large number of studies on protected‐species bycatch in recent decades, relatively few
Northridge, Simon   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Ecosystem Impacts of the Landing Obligation for Unwanted Catch in Thermaikos Gulf (Greece)

open access: yesFisheries Management and Ecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Discards by marine commercial fisheries have been an issue of major concern to the scientific community in recent years. We modeled the ecological and trophic consequences of a mandatory landing obligation (LO) regulated by the reformed Common Fisheries Policy [Regulation (EU) 1380/2013] on the Thermaikos Gulf ecosystem (northwestern Aegean ...
Ioannis Keramidas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Review of the occurrence and management of Sotalia bycatch in Central and South American coastal and riverine fisheries: priorities for immediate action [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Despite the fact that cetacean bycatch has been acknowledged as the “greatest immediate and well documented threat to the survival of cetacean species and populations… …progress at reducing the scale and conservation impact of cetacean bycatch has been ...
Bolaños-Jimenez, J.   +3 more
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