Towards environmental sustainability in marine finfish aquaculture

CB Carballeira Brana, K Cerbule, P Senff… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing food production sectors and has great potential for
food security and livelihoods. However, it generates concerning consequences for the …

Sea cucumber culture, farming and sea ranching in the tropics: Progress, problems and opportunities

SW Purcell, CA Hair, DJ Mills - Aquaculture, 2012 - Elsevier
Tropical sea cucumber mariculture has potential to become a profitable industry and
contribute towards natural population replenishment. Here, we synthesise the fields of …

Ecological roles of exploited sea cucumbers

SW Purcell, C Conand, S Uthicke… - … and marine biology, 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
STEVEN W. PURCELL1, CHANTAL CONAND2, SVEN UTHICKE3 & MARIA
BYRNE41National Marine Science Centre, Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour …

Sea cucumber fisheries: global analysis of stocks, management measures and drivers of overfishing

SW Purcell, A Mercier, C Conand, JF Hamel… - Fish and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Worldwide, most sea cucumber fisheries are ineffectively managed, leading to declining
stocks and potentially eroding the resilience of fisheries. We analyse trends in catches …

Deposit-and suspension-feeding sea cucumbers (Echinodermata) ingest plastic fragments

ER Graham, JT Thompson - Journal of experimental marine biology and …, 2009 - Elsevier
Weathering of plastic bottles, bags, fishing line, and other products discarded in the ocean
causes tiny fragments to break off. These plastic fragments may accumulate biofilms, sink …

Serial exploitation of global sea cucumber fisheries

SC Anderson, JM Flemming, R Watson… - Fish and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
In recent decades, invertebrate fisheries have expanded in catch and value worldwide. One
increasingly harvested group is sea cucumbers (class Holothuroidea), which are highly …

Beyond corals and fish: the effects of climate change on noncoral benthic invertebrates of tropical reefs

R Przeslawski, S Ahyong, M Byrne… - Global Change …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is threatening tropical reefs across the world, with most scientists agreeing
that the current changes in climate conditions are occurring at a much faster rate than in the …

Tracing carbon flow through coral reef food webs using a compound-specific stable isotope approach

KW McMahon, SR Thorrold, LA Houghton… - Oecologia, 2016 - Springer
Coral reefs support spectacularly productive and diverse communities in tropical and sub-
tropical waters throughout the world's oceans. Debate continues, however, on the degree to …

Nutrient regeneration by abundant coral reef holothurians

S Uthicke - Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 2001 - Elsevier
To investigate quantity and quality of nutrients regenerated by sediment feeding
holothurians excretion experiments were conducted with the common species Holothuria …

Ocean warming and acidification uncouple calcification from calcifier biomass which accelerates coral reef decline

SG Dove, KT Brown, A Van Den Heuvel… - … Earth & Environment, 2020 - nature.com
Global climate change will drive declines in coral reefs over coming decades. Yet, the
relative role of temperature versus acidification, and the ability of resultant ecosystems to …