A review of published research indicates that the Northern Gulf of California is, historically
and currently, one of the most biologically productive marine regions on Earth. This high …

According to a recent World Bank report, the intensification of global fishing effort and the
ensuing depletion of marine fish stocks causes economic losses of 50billion US dollars …

Fisheries bycatch threatens populations of marine megafauna such as marine mammals,
turtles, seabirds, sharks and rays, but fisheries impacts on non-target populations are often …

Global marine wild‐capture landings have remained relatively stable for> 20 years;
however, there is a lack of credible fishing capacity and effort information required to assess …

The number of Mexico's endemic porpoise, the vaquita (Phocoena sinus), is collapsing
primarily due to bycatch in illegal gillnets set for totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi), an …

This chapter explores the fishery and biological implications of exploiting aggregating
marine fishes, their general importance to subsistence, commercial, and recreational …

We engaged in cooperative research with fishers and stakeholders to characterize the fine-
scale, spatio-temporal characteristics of spawning behavior in an aggregating marine fish …

There is a high risk that incidental mortality (bycatch) in gillnets will lead to extinction of the
vaquita Phocoena sinus, a small porpoise endemic to Mexico's northern Gulf of California. A …

In order to assess the contribution of fish spawning aggregations and aggregating species to
commercial marine fisheries in the Gulf of California, we:(1) investigated associations …

Fishers' knowledge collected through a rapid appraisal process that involved semi-
structured interviews in 17 fishing communities in the Northern Gulf of California, Mexico …