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Assessing discards in an illegal small-scale fishery using fisher-led reporting
About a third of all marine fish in the world are caught in Small-Scale Fisheries (SSF). SSF are increasingly recognised as essential for food...
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Can we gain new knowledge from the discarded fraction of the low-price commercial species of the bottom trawl fishery? An insight into the Eastern Mediterranean (Aegean Sea, Greece)
In the Mediterranean, one of the main reasons for discarding commercial species is when fishers catch fish smaller than the minimum conservation...
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Electrotrawling can improve the sustainability of the bottom trawl fishery for sole: a review of the evidence
Between 2009 and 2021 almost the complete beam trawl fleet of the Netherlands switched from conventional beam trawls (BT) to pulse trawls (PT) using...
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Effects of mesh size, fishing depth and season on the catch and discards of short mackerel Rastrelliger brachysoma gillnet fishery at the mouth of Pattani Bay, Thailand
This study evaluates the impacts of mesh size of the net, fishing depth and season on the catches of target, non-target and discarded species for...
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Feeding habits of two shark species: velvet belly, Etmopterus spinax (Linnaeus, 1758) and blackmouth catshark, Galeus melastomus (Rafinesque, 1810), present in fishing discards in the Gulf of Cádiz
In many fisheries, such as trawl fisheries, sharks appear among the catches as bycatch or discards, and these species include velvet belly ( Etmopterus...
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Long-Term Passive Acoustic Monitoring to Support Adaptive Management in a Sciaenid Fishery (Tagus Estuary, Portugal)
Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is useful for monitoring vocal fish but has had so far limited application in fisheries management. Here, four...
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Insights into fishery by-product application in aquatic feed and food: a review
Today, the fishery industry plays a crucial role in meeting the global demand for human food. However, the increased production and processing of...
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A review of the Pacific sleeper shark Somniosus pacificus: biology and fishery interactions
The Pacific sleeper shark Somniosus pacificus is a large-bodied and broad-ranging squaliform shark that occupies diverse habitats throughout the...
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Inter-colony and inter-annual variation in discard use by albatross chicks revealed using isotopes and regurgitates
Effective marine ecosystem monitoring is critical for sustainable management. Monitoring seabird diets can convey important information on ecosystem...
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Bycatch and discards from two types of bivalve dredges targeting Donax trunculus and Chamelea gallina used in the southern coast of the Marmara Sea, Turkey
Intensive commercial harvesting of the wedge clam Donax trunculus and the striped venus Chamelea gallina was conducted along the southern coast of...
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How shearwaters prey. New insights in foraging behaviour and marine foraging associations using bird-borne video cameras
AbstractConventional bio-logging techniques used for ethological studies of seabirds have their limitations when studying detailed behaviours at sea....
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Tori lines mitigate seabird bycatch in a pelagic longline fishery
Albatross bycatch has been increasing over the past decade in the US tuna longline fishery of the central North Pacific. A controlled field...
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Biogeographic variation on dietary aspects of a widely distributed seabird
The diet of widely distributed species is influenced by the availability of food resources, which can vary according to local conditions. Thus,...
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Using a tier classification system to evaluate the quality of bycatch estimates from fisheries
Bycatch continues to be a challenge to sustainable fisheries management (The term “bycatch” in this paper covers discards and does not include...
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Distribution and diet of cape petrels (Daption capense) attending fishing vessels off the Patagonian Continental Shelf during the non-breeding season in austral winter: insights from on-board censuses and stable isotope analysis
The cape petrel ( Daption capense ) is an abundant procellariform in seabird assemblages attending fishing vessels in the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean....
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Assessment of cetacean–fishery interactions in the marine food web of the Gulf of Taranto (Northern Ionian Sea, Central Mediterranean Sea)
The exploitation of fishery resources acts as a driving force on cetaceans both directly, by determining their fishing mortality or injury as...
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Spatial distribution of discards in mixed fisheries: species trade-offs, potential spatial avoidance and national contrasts
Since 2015, the European Union gradually implemented the landing obligation (LO). This prohibits at-sea discarding of species under total allowable...
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Compliance in small-scale fisheries is linked to fisher-trader relations: not fishers alone (Southeast Asian case study)
Fisher-trader relations are influential in many small-scale fisheries worldwide. The ability to influence emergent fishing practices has shifted...
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Nutraceutical Ingredients from Aquatic Secondary Raw Material
Currently, consumers prefer very healthy and nutritious foods in their diet. Fish and fishery products are considered a nutraceutical for providing...
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Fisheries and Aquaculture
Shrimps are valuable nutritional, economic and cultural components of the world’s food supply. Although shrimps make up only 4% of the world...