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Impacts of fisheries on seabird communities
Scientia Marina, 2003 Long-line by-catch of albatrosses and petrels may soon lead to species extinctions. Set-net bycatch has caused major reductions in certain seabird populations. Some fisheries may decrease numbers of seabirds by reducing abundance of prey-fish.
Robert W. Furness
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Fisheries subsidies exacerbate inequities in accessing seafood nutrients in the Indian Ocean
npj Ocean Sustainability, 2023 Harmful, capacity-enhancing subsidies distort fishing activities and lead to overfishing and perverse outcomes for food security and conservation. We investigated the provision and spatial distribution of fisheries subsidies in the Indian Ocean.
Vania Andreoli +5 more
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Aquatic Living Resources, 2021 Species specific identification of early larval stages of many decapod crustaceans sampled from plankton collections remains cumbersome owing to lack of distinguishable characteristics, where DNA based molecular methods provide accurate results without ...
Harikrishnan Mahadevan +3 more
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Linking Multiscalar Fisheries Using Metacoupling Models
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 Marine fisheries are social-ecological systems important for human health and livelihoods. However, research approaches that consider human–nature interactions within as well as between adjacent and distant fisheries are scarce.
Andrew K. Carlson +5 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2018 Fisheries in Guinea Bissau contribute greatly to the economy and food security of its people. Yet, as the ability of the country to monitor its fisheries is at most weak, and confronted with a heavy foreign fleet presence, the impact of industrial ...
Jeremias Francisco Intchama +3 more
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Development of fisheries in China
Reproduction and Breeding, 2021 Fisheries is a social production sector that captures and farms fish and other aquatic animals and plants for aquatic products. In a broad sense, fisheries also include upstream departments (e.g., manufacturing, maintenance and supply of fishing gear ...
Fangzhou Hu +12 more
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Viewpoint: Back to the future for fisheries, where will we choose to go?
Global Sustainability, 2019 We present a view on global marine fisheries that emphasizes mitigating the conflict between sustainability and the scale of industrial exploitation driven by the demand of continuous economic growth.
Dirk Zeller, Daniel Pauly
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Novos Cadernos NAEA, 2011 This study aims to identify the environments, the intensity of their production and management actions in the Amazon Estuary. Information used in this study was obtained from literature reviews and questionnaires applied to diverse stakeholder’s groups ...
Márcia Melo Ramos +1 more
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021 Following a brief review of their biology, this contribution is an attempt to provide a global overview of the catches of mesopelagic fishes (of which 2.68 million tonnes were officially reported to the FAO) throughout the world ocean from 1950 to 2018 ...
Daniel Pauly +9 more
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Small-scale fisheries bycatch jeopardizes endangered Pacific loggerhead turtles. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2007 Although bycatch of industrial-scale fisheries can cause declines in migratory megafauna including seabirds, marine mammals, and sea turtles, the impacts of small-scale fisheries have been largely overlooked. Small-scale fisheries occur in coastal waters
S Hoyt Peckham +5 more
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