Considerable time and money are expended in the pursuit of catching fish with hooks (eg,
handlining, angling, longlining, trolling, drumlining) across the recreational, commercial and …

In order to achieve sustainable development of marine fishery resources, effective supervise
of trawl fishing during forbidden fishing period is of great significance. This paper addresses …

Bottom trawlers land around 19 million tons of fish and invertebrates annually, almost one-
quarter of wild marine landings. The extent of bottom trawling footprint (seabed area trawled …

A key challenge in contemporary ecology and conservation is the accurate tracking of the
spatial distribution of various human impacts, such as fishing. While coastal fisheries in …

Several research initiatives have been undertaken to map fishing effort at high spatial
resolution using the Vessel Monitoring System (VMS). An alternative to the VMS is …

Monitoring and understanding the behavior of fishing vessels are important in facilitating
effective management, preventing illegal fishing, informing fishing grounds and evaluating …

VMStools is a package of open-source software, build using the freeware environment R,
specifically developed for the processing, analysis and visualisation of landings (logbooks) …

Species map** is an essential tool for conservation programmes as it provides clear
pictures of the distribution of marine resources. However, in fishery ecology, the amount of …

Small-scale fisheries can greatly impact threatened marine fauna. Peru's small-scale
elasmobranch gillnet fishery captures thousands of sharks and rays each year, and …

During the last decade spatial patterns of industrial fisheries have been increasingly
characterized using tracking technologies and machine learning analytical algorithms. In …