Coastal global oceans are expected to undergo drastic changes driven by climate change
and increasing anthropogenic pressures in coming decades. Predicting specific future …

The search for new biological sources of commercial value is a major goal for the
sustainable management of natural resources. The huge amount of fishery by-catch or …

State of Nature 2019 presents an overview of how the country's wildlife is faring, looking
back over nearly 50 years of monitoring to see how nature has changed in the UK, its Crown …

Trophic level (TL)-based indicators have been widely used to examine fishing impacts in
aquatic ecosystems and the induced biodiversity changes. However, much debate has …

Experts in the field of fisheries and aqua feeds have estimated that about a quarter of wastes
coming from fishery are discarded, so causing not only a significant environmental impact …

Abstract IndiSeas (“Indicators for the Seas”) is a collaborative international working group
that was established in 2005 to evaluate the status of exploited marine ecosystems using a …

Accurate data on discards, the proportion of the catch that fishers do not retain, is necessary
to achieve socioeconomically and ecologically sustainable fisheries. We review …

Discarding is a common practice in fisheries. Total discards are estimated to be about 30
million tons, representing around 23% of worldwide catches. Discarding is an undesirable …

Discarding by fisheries is perceived as contrary to responsible harvesting. Legislation
seeking to end the practice is being introduced in many jurisdictions. However, discarded …

A landing obligation was formally implemented in the European Union (EU) for the first time,
as part of the recent reform of the EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). Given the reasonable …