Marine fish stocks and the ecosystems they inhabit are in decline in many parts of our
ocean, including in some European waters, because of overfishing and the ecosystem effect …

In this contribution, we propose fishery driven predator release as the cause for the largest
grazing event ever observed in the NE Atlantic. Based on the evolving appreciation of limits …

The increasing need to account for the many factors that influence fish population dynamics,
particularly those external to the population, has led to repeated calls for an ecosystem …

The management of the Norwegian Northeast Atlantic cod fishery has in many ways been a
success story; quotas have been high (but now declining), profitability has been higher than …

The present paper presents the practical implementation of the Ecosystem Approach to
Fisheries Management (EAFM) in Norway. This involves defining management objectives …

As global warming makes the Arctic Ocean more accessible, concerns have been raised
about the environmental consequences of a possible expansion of commercial fisheries into …

The introduction of 200 nm exclusive economic zones (EEZs) in the late 1970s required
increased collaboration among neighbouring coastal states to manage transboundary and …

A source to long-term increased catches and profitability for the fishing fleet is the reduction
of discards and improvements in exploitation patterns. This article details the development of …

The development of ecosystem-based fisheries management over the last two decades has
increased attention on the protection of vulnerable resources that are of little or no economic …

The Svalbard archipelago in the High Arctic is influenced by cold Arctic water masses from
the north-east and the warm West Spitsbergen Current flowing northwards along its western …