Potential environmental impacts of floating solar photovoltaic systems

S Benjamins, B Williamson, SL Billing, Z Yuan… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
The use of floating photovoltaic systems in freshwater and marine environments is forecast
to increase dramatically worldwide within the next decade in response to demands for …

Looking beyond the mortality of bycatch: sublethal effects of incidental capture on marine animals

SM Wilson, GD Raby, NJ Burnett, SG Hinch… - Biological …, 2014 - Elsevier
There is a widely recognized need to understand and reduce the incidental effects of marine
fishing on non-target animals. Previous research on marine bycatch has largely focused on …

[HTML][HTML] Matching fishery-specific drivers of abandoned, lost and discarded fishing gear to relevant interventions

E Gilman, J Humberstone, JR Wilson, E Chassot… - Marine Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
There has been increasing recognition of the need to address adverse ecological and
socioeconomic effects of abandoned, lost and discarded fishing gear (ALDFG). This …

Approaches to understanding the cumulative effects of stressors on marine mammals

National Academies of Sciences, Medicine… - 2017 - books.google.com
Marine mammals face a large array of stressors, including loss of habitat, chemical and
noise pollution, and bycatch in fishing, which alone kills hundreds of thousands of marine …

The impact of marine debris on cetaceans with consideration of plastics generated by the COVID-19 pandemic

SM Eisfeld-Pierantonio, N Pierantonio… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
The accumulation of human-derived debris in the oceans is a global concern and a serious
threat to marine wildlife. There is a volume of evidence that points to deleterious effects of …

Blue whale earplug reveals lifetime contaminant exposure and hormone profiles

SJ Trumble, EM Robinson… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - pnas.org
Lifetime contaminant and hormonal profiles have been reconstructed for an individual male
blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus, Linnaeus 1758) using the earplug as a natural aging …

Fecal glucocorticoids and anthropogenic injury and mortality in North Atlantic right whales Eubalaena glacialis

RM Rolland, WA McLellan, MJ Moore… - Endangered Species …, 2017 - int-res.com
As human impacts on marine ecosystems escalate, there is increasing interest in quantifying
sub-lethal physiological and pathological responses of marine mammals. Glucocorticoid …

The ups and downs of traps: environmental impacts, entanglement, mitigation, and the future of trap fishing for crustaceans and fish

BG Stevens - ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Fishing has many types of impacts on the marine environment. Degradation of seafloor
habitats by trawling has been widely studied, along with bycatch mortality, and ghost fishing …

What can cetacean stranding records tell us? A study of UK and Irish cetacean diversity over the past 100 years

EJ Coombs, R Deaville, RC Sabin… - Marine Mammal …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
There are many factors that may explain why cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises)
strand. Around the UK and Ireland, over 20,000 stranding records have been collected since …

Long-term trends and a risk analysis of cetacean entanglements and bycatch in fisheries gear in Australian waters

V Tulloch, V Pirotta, A Grech, S Crocetti… - Biodiversity and …, 2020 - Springer
Assessments of fisheries interactions with non-target species are crucial for quantifying
anthropogenic threatening processes and informing management action. We perform the …