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Setting Annual Catch Limits for U.S. Fisheries: An Expert Working Group Report [PDF]
Provides guidance on the application of annual catch limits for U.S.
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Abstract Bycatch in fisheries is one of the most serious threats to pelagic seabirds, causing major population declines. Mitigation measures can reduce bycatch substantially, but many fisheries fail to apply best practices, and seabird mortality remains high.
V. Warwick‐Evans +2 more
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Assessment of 12 Fish Species in the Northwest Pacific Using the CMSY and BSM Methods
We assessed 12 marine fish species in the Northwestern Pacific exploited by Japanese fisheries, using published catch time series, CPUE data and the CMSY and BSM methods.
Yibang Wang +16 more
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Protecting Life in the Sea [PDF]
Unrestrained impact of human activity is imposing fundamental, perhaps irreversible, changes on the world's oceans. This brochure examines the Pew Environment Group's work over the last 15 years and looking ahead to 2012, to increase public awareness and
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The hole in the doughnut: Formalizing and testing a key model of degrowth
Abstract Degrowth scholars often claim that capitalism generates social and ecological imbalances, as captured by Kate Raworth's leading doughnut model. We formalize this model using social and environmental indices and measure imbalances using their coefficient of variation.
Ashruta Acharya +2 more
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Attention to the overwhelming degradation in the marine environment is causing a new crisis: funding often outpaces the science, leading to myriad, often hastily planned, projects that may be accelerating the detriment of the very ecosystems they are ...
Jacob E. Allgeier, Matthew Griffith
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Fishing capacity management [PDF]
Excess fishing capacity has been identified as one of the most pernicious problems affecting long-term sustainability and biodiversity of fishery resources and economic viability of fishing operations.
Boopendranath, M.R.
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Recovery of critically endangered Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus) in the Cayman Islands following targeted conservation actions. [PDF]
Many large-bodied marine fishes that form spawning aggregations, such as the Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus), have suffered regional overfishing due to exploitation during spawning.
Bush, Phillippe +6 more
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Does nature shape risk preferences? Evidence from Chile, Norway, and Tanzania
Abstract Does exposure to a more risky environment affect risk preferences? Going beyond single‐case study evidence, we report results from five surveys conducted in three countries and link this with administrative data to study whether a link between exposure and preferences is detectable and widespread. We find no evidence for endogenous preferences
Florian Diekert, Robbert‐Jan Schaap
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Economic Costs of Historic Overfishing on Recreational Fisheries: South Atlantic & Gulf of Mexico Regions [PDF]
Ocean fish are a vital renewable resource for human populations, providing food, employment, and recreation. Many fish stocks worldwide, however, are in a state of serious decline due to overfishing, environmental degradation, climate change, and other ...
Kristen Sheeran, Taylor Hesselgrave
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