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Participatory approaches to improving recreational fisheries management in a remote island system

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
Marine recreational fisheries management is often impacted by data deficiencies and conflicting stakeholder views. Using participatory approaches can help to increase fisher engagement and identify trade‐offs to boost future management. Social science tools, including scenario‐based approaches, were used to explore recreational fisheries on a remote ...
Claire Collins   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Integrated Approach to Determining the Risk of Overexploitation for Data-Poor Pelagic Atlantic Sharks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Assesses the risk of over-exploitation of sharks in Atlantic longline fisheries using three metrics based on multivariate statistics as a way to make management recommendations for species with limited data.

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Monitoring small‐scale fisheries through participatory, app‐based surveys in the tropical archipelago of São Tomé and Príncipe

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
Small Island Developing States have limited capacity to monitor Small Scale Fisheries, despite their high dependence on marine resources. Participatory monitoring of Small Scale Fisheries can fill data gaps while integrating resource users into fisheries management.
Guillermo Porriños   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of two anatomically separate olfactory bulbs in shark food odor tracking [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Most sharks have well-developed olfactory systems and depend to a large degree on odor information to locate food, home and navigate, and possibly detect predators and mates.
Lohe, Adrienne
core   +1 more source

Barriers and benefits of rock climber participation in citizen science for bat conservation

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
We examine the barriers and benefits of rock climber engagement with the citizen science organization Climbers for Bat Conservation. Findings reveal that situational and informational barriers limit participation, while benefits to engage include maintaining climbing access and ecological concerns.
Emily Gross   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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