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Time of death: behavioral responses of an oceanic whitetip shark, Carcharhinus longimanus, to capture by a longline fishing vessel
BackgroundBycatch mortality in longline fisheries is a major contributor to global declines in shark populations. The duration of time that an animal...
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Blue shark (Prionace glauca) movements, habitat use, and vertical overlap with longline fishing gears in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean
Over the last three decades, the advent and the continuous sophistication of telemetry devices have revolutionized our understanding of how pelagic...
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Exploring economic optimum fishing efforts: a case of Japanese swordfish longline fishery
An empirically estimated harvest function for an off-shore longline fishing vessel is integrated with a demand model for swordfish, and costs. This...
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Killer whale (Orcinus orca) depredation on longline groundfish fisheries in the northwestern Pacific
The killer whale ( Orcinus orca ) behavior termed “depredation” is a major issue negatively affecting fisheries worldwide. Information on killer whale...
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Horizontal and vertical movements of immature dusky sharks Carcharhinus obscurus in relation to commercial longline fisheries in the western North Atlantic Ocean
BackgroundMany species of sharks, including the dusky shark Carcharhinus obscurus, are often incidentally captured in commercial pelagic and bottom...
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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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Performance of a finite mixture model in CPUE standardization for a longline fishery with target change
Standardized catch per unit effort (CPUE) is frequently used to represent annual fish-stock abundance trends. In multispecies fisheries, the...
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Novel Methods for Protecting Kappaphycus alvarezii from Herbivores: An Overview of Development and Economic Prospects
Kappahycus alvarezii is widely cultivated by Indonesian people living in coastal areas. The use of simple cultivation methods and low investment in...
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Effect of pelagic longline bait type on species selectivity: a global synthesis of evidence
Fisheries can profoundly affect bycatch species with ‘slow’ life history traits. Managing bait type offers one tool to control species selectivity....
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The effects of cultivation type and maturity stage on arsenic species concentration and carrageenan content in Kappaphycus spp. from Semporna, Sabah
Three Kappaphycus species ( Kappaphycus striatus , Kappaphycus alvarezii, and Kappaphycus malesianus ) were cultivated using two cultivation methods...
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Distribution and Some Aspects of Biology of Hozukius guyotensis (Sebastidae) in the Area of the Emperor Seamount Chain
AbstractBased on the materials collected in the course of longline fishing in the area of the Emperor Seamount Chain, new data on the occurrence,...
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Can sex differences in spatiotemporal distribution and age composition explain the female-biased sex ratio observed in the catch of butterfly kingfish Gasterochisma melampus?
The catch of butterfly kingfish Gasterochisma melampus , a large pelagic species in southern temperate waters, is strongly biased (73%) towards...
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New Finds of Chimaeras (Holocephali: Chimaeriformes) in the Region of the Emperor Seamount Chain (Northern Pacific Ocean)
AbstractNew finds of Chimaera owstoni and Hydrolagus purpurescens in the region of the Emperor Seamount Chain have been reported based on materials...
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Depth effect on growth and fatty acid profile of Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis) produced on a longline off south Portugal
Mytilus galloprovincialis is one of recent bivalve species produced in Portugal offshore. The growth, condition index, and the fatty acid composition...
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Effects of best practices to reduce seabird bycatch in pelagic longline fisheries on other threatened, protected and bycaught megafauna species
Fisheries bycatch is one of main conservation problems for many threatened seabirds. Currently, it is unknown whether existing best practices to...
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An assessment of the use of macroalgae to improve the retention of Greenshell™ mussel (Perna canaliculus) spat in longline culture
Large-scale losses of spat are commonplace during the early stages of mussel aquaculture costing the industry millions in lost production. The...
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Jan Mayen—a new spawning and fishing area for Atlantic cod Gadus morhua
In 2018, commercially exploitable concentrations of Atlantic cod Gadus morhua were found on the shelf around the Arctic island Jan Mayen (7 1°N,...
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New Data on Adelosebastes latens (Sebastidae) from the Region of the Underwater Elevations of the Hawaiian-Emperor Seamount Chain (Northern Pacific Ocean)
Abstract —The data on the occurrence, distribution, and some biological and ecological features of Adelosebastes latens are given for the first time...
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Highly migratory species predictive spatial modeling (PRiSM): an analytical framework for assessing the performance of spatial fisheries management
Spatial management for highly migratory species (HMS) is difficult due to many species’ mobile habits and the dynamic nature of oceanic habitats....
