Small-scale coastal fisheries in European Seas are not what they were: ecological, social and economic changes

J Lloret, IG Cowx, H Cabral, M Castro, T Font… - Marine Policy, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Coastal, small-scale fisheries (SSF), whether artisanal (professional) or recreational,
represent important socioeconomic activities across Europe that are currently undergoing a …

Stock assessment in inland fisheries: a foundation for sustainable use and conservation

K Lorenzen, IG Cowx, REM Entsua-Mensah… - Reviews in Fish Biology …, 2016‏ - Springer
Fisheries stock assessments are essential for science-based fisheries management. Inland
fisheries pose challenges, but also provide opportunities for biological assessments that …

Fish reproductive-energy output increases disproportionately with body size

DR Barneche, DR Robertson, CR White, DJ Marshall - Science, 2018‏ - science.org
Body size determines total reproductive-energy output. Most theories assume reproductive
output is a fixed proportion of size, with respect to mass, but formal macroecological tests are …

Minimizing the impact of fishing

R Froese, H Winker, D Gascuel, UR Sumaila… - Fish and …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Minimizing the impact of fishing is an explicit goal in international agreements as well as in
regional directives and national laws. To assist in practical implementation, three simple …

Saving large fish through harvest slots outperforms the classical minimum‐length limit when the aim is to achieve multiple harvest and catch‐related fisheries …

RNM Ahrens, MS Allen, C Walters… - Fish and …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
We address the problem of optimal size‐selective exploitation in an age‐structured fish
population model by systematically examining how density and size dependency in growth …

The theoretical foundations for size spectrum models of fish communities

KH Andersen, NS Jacobsen… - Canadian Journal of …, 2016‏ - cdnsciencepub.com
Size spectrum models have emerged from 40 years of basic research on how body size
determines individual physiology and structures marine communities. They are based on …

MSY needs no epitaph—but it was abused

D Pauly, R Froese - ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
The maximum sustainable yield (MSY) concept is widely considered to be outdated and
misleading. In response, fisheries scientists have developed models that often diverge …

Opportunities to improve ecosystem‐based fisheries management by recognizing and overcoming path dependency and cognitive bias

EA Fulton - Fish and Fisheries, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
The rate of change in marine ecosystems and the speed with which pressure on those
systems is escalating are much faster than rates of institutional change or management …

Ecosystems say good management pays off

EA Fulton, AE Punt, CM Dichmont, CJ Harvey… - Fish and …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of alternative assessment methods, harvest
strategies and management approaches are an important part of operationalizing single …

Balanced harvest: concept, policies, evidence, and management implications

S Zhou, J Kolding, SM Garcia, MJ Plank… - Reviews in Fish Biology …, 2019‏ - Springer
Balanced harvest has been proposed to reduce fishing impact on ecosystems while
simultaneously maintaining or even increasing fishery yield. The concept has attracted …