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Threats of Longline Fishing to Global Albatross Diversity [PDF]
Animals, 2022 Albatrosses are among the most threatened seabird species. Often entangled in gillnets or hooked while longline fishing gear is being set, albatrosses are affected by fishing.
Gohar A. Petrossian +4 more
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Addressing illegal longlining and ghost fishing in the Galapagos marine reserve: an overview of challenges and potential solutions [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine ScienceDespite regulations aimed at curbing shark finning and bycatch, shark fishing mortality rates continue to escalate, partly due to unintended consequences of these policies which, along with illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing and ghost fishing ...
Mauricio Castrejon, Omar Defeo
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Fish grabbing: Weak governance and productive waters are targets for distant water fishing. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Distant water fishing occurs worldwide as foreign fleets fish in the exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of other states. We test the hypothesis that host state governance performance is an explanatory factor in observed distant water fishing effort using ...
Moritz Stäbler +3 more
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Perceptions and attitudes of residents toward small-scale longline tuna fishing in the Galapagos Marine Reserve: conservation and management implications [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 Longlining represents a cost-effective fishing modality for catching tuna, but its use is contentious due to the unintended catch of endangered, threatened, and protected (ETP) species.
Mauricio Castrejón, Omar Defeo
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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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Fishes, 2021 Lagoon soft-bottoms are key habitats within coral reef seascapes. Coral reef fish use these habitats as nurseries, feeding grounds and transit areas. At present, most soft-bottom sampling methods are destructive (trawling, longlining, hook and line).
Delphine Mallet +4 more
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Portuguese Artisanal Fishers’ Knowledge About Elasmobranchs—A Case Study
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 The high economic value of fisheries was historically associated to commercial teleost fishes. Since the 1970s, despite some elasmobranchs becoming an important target or a bycatch, relatively little research has been carried out on this group because of
Priscila M. Silva +6 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 The coastal waters of South Africa are habitat to a diverse composition of sharks that are vulnerable to exploitation, many of which are endemic and/or classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List as Threatened or Data
Patricia S. Albano +8 more
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