Options for Differential Management and Monitoring of Seabird Bycatch WCPFC-SC6-2010/EB-WP-05 [PDF]
At WCPFC-SC5 it was agreed to undertake further work to validate the spatial risk assessment (ERA) on seabirds to determine initial spatial zones for the differential management and monitoring of seabird bycatch.
W. Papworth
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Assessing the vulnerability of the marine bird community in the western North Sea to climate change and other anthropogenic impacts [PDF]
Ocean warming and anthropogenic activities such as fishing, shipping and marine renewable developments are affecting marine top predators. Research has focussed on the impacts of single stressors on single species, yet understanding cumulative effects of
Burthe, Sarah J. +4 more
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Reducing Undesirable Environmental Impacts in the Marine Environment: A Review of Market-Based Incentive Management Measures [PDF]
Using the example of commercial fishing, this paper explores the potential of incentive based management measures as a means of reducing the undesirable impacts of industries operating within the marine environment.
Innes, James +2 more
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Catch Shares in Action: Alaska Halibut and Sablefish Fixed Gear Individual Fishing Quota Program [PDF]
The Alaska Halibut and Sablefish Fixed Gear Individual Fishing Quota Program (IFQ Program) was one of the first to include a variety of design elements to meet key social goals while also contributing to decreasing overcapitalization and increasing the ...
Karly McIlwain
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The Tristan albatross Diomedea dabbanena is Critically Endangered: >99% of adults breed at Gough Island, central South Atlantic Ocean, where chicks are threatened by introduced predators.
TA Reid +4 more
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Government-Industry Cooperative Fisheries Research in the North Pacific under the MSFCMA [PDF]
The National Marine Fisheries Service’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) has a long and successful history of conducting research in cooperation with the fishing industry. Many of the AFSC’s annual resource assessment surveys are carried out aboard
Dorn, Martin W. +5 more
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Fisheries Exploitation by Albatross Quantified With Lipid Analysis
Mortality from incidental bycatch in longline fishery operations is a global threat to seabird populations, and especially so for the albatross family (Diomedeidae) in which 15 out of 22 species are threatened with extinction.
Melinda G. Conners +8 more
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Social Media Reveals Potential Threat of Crayfish Trap to Birds
Fishery bycatch is a significant threat to biodiversity, with birds being frequent casualties. Current research mainly focuses on seabird bycatch in large-scale marine fisheries, while bird bycatch in inland freshwater areas remains poorly understood ...
Chao Gong +4 more
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PICES Press, Vol. 23, No. 1, Winter 2015 [PDF]
PICES science in 2014: A note from the Science Board Chairman (pp. 1-5); 2014 PICES awards (pp. 6-8); Fisheries bycatch: Global issues and creative solutions (pp.
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The origins of white-chinned petrels killed by long-line fisheries off South Africa and New Zealand
The white-chinned petrel (Procellaria aequinoctialis) is the seabird species most frequently killed by fisheries in the Southern Ocean and is listed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources as globally vulnerable ...
N.M.S. Mareile Techow +3 more
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