Benefits, concerns, and solutions of fishing for tunas with drifting fish aggregation devices

M Pons, D Kaplan, G Moreno, L Escalle… - Fish and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Drifting fish aggregating devices (dFADs) are human‐made floating objects widely used by
tropical tuna purse seine (PS) fisheries to increase catch of target species. However, dFAD …

[HTML][HTML] Global-Scale Environmental Niche and Habitat of Blue Shark (Prionace glauca) by Size and Sex: A Pivotal Step to Improving Stock Management

JN Druon, S Campana, F Vandeperre… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Blue shark (Prionace glauca) is amongst the most abundant shark species in international
trade, however this highly migratory species has little effective management and the need …

Post‐release survival of shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) and silky (Carcharhinus falciformis) sharks released from pelagic tuna longlines in the Pacific Ocean

MP Francis, WS Lyon, SC Clarke… - Aquatic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Substantial global population declines in pelagic sharks have led to the introduction of
management and conservation measures, including gear restrictions and no‐retention …

What's the catch? Examining optimal longline fishing gear configurations to minimize negative impacts on non-target species

M Scott, E Cardona, K Scidmore-Rossing, M Royer… - Marine Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes to fishing gear configurations have great potential to decrease fishing
interactions, minimize injury and reduce mortality for non-target species in commercial …

Harnessing stakeholder knowledge for the collaborative development of Mobulid bycatch mitigation strategies in tuna fisheries

MR Cronin, DA Croll, MA Hall… - ICES Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Manta and devil rays (Mobulids) face several immediate threats, including incidental capture
in industrial tropical tuna fisheries. As a result, efforts have emerged to avoid or mitigate …

Time of death: behavioral responses of an oceanic whitetip shark, Carcharhinus longimanus, to capture by a longline fishing vessel

M Scott, M Royer, M Hutchinson - Animal Biotelemetry, 2023 - Springer
Background Bycatch mortality in longline fisheries is a major contributor to global declines in
shark populations. The duration of time that an animal is hooked and the impacts of hooking …

Blue shark (Prionace glauca) movements, habitat use, and vertical overlap with longline fishing gears in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean

F Mas, E Cortés, R Coelho, O Defeo, P Miller, J Carlson… - Marine Biology, 2024 - Springer
Over the last three decades, the advent and the continuous sophistication of telemetry
devices have revolutionized our understanding of how pelagic sharks move and exploit their …

Preliminary Insights on the Habitat Use and Vertical Movements of the Pelagic Stingray (Pteroplatytrygon violacea) in the Western Mediterranean Sea

F Poisson, JR Ellis, SR McCully Phillips - Fishes, 2024 - mdpi.com
Pelagic stingray (Pteroplatytrygon violacea) is the only species of stingray (Dasyatidae) that
utilizes both pelagic and demersal habitats. It is the main bycatch species in pelagic longline …

[HTML][HTML] Leader material and bait effects on target and bycatch species caught in an Atlantic Ocean pelagic longline fishery

CC Santos, MN Santos, D Rosa, R Coelho - Fisheries Research, 2024 - Elsevier
The influence of bait type and leader material on target and bycatch species was assessed
through fishing experiments in the Portuguese shallow pelagic longline fishery in the Atlantic …

Future stock projections of oceanic whitetip sharks in the western and central Pacific Ocean

K Bigelow, J Rice, F Carvalho - 2022 - repository.library.noaa.gov
The updated stock assessment for oceanic whitetip shark presented to the 15th WCPFC
Science Committee (Tremblay-Boyer et al., 2019) showed that the stock was overfished and …