Fisheries bycatch is a threat to species of marine megafauna across the world's oceans.
Work over the past several decades has greatly advanced our understanding of the species …

Marine mammals can play important ecological roles in aquatic ecosystems, and their
presence can be key to community structure and function. Consequently, marine mammals …

Recent research on ocean health has found large predator abundance to be a key element
of ocean condition. Fisheries can impact large predator abundance directly through targeted …

Marine megafauna such as seabirds, marine mammals and sea turtles are subject to high
mortality from incidental capture or bycatch in fisheries. Recent research suggests that …

Between 1950 and 1989, marine fisheries catch in the open‐ocean and deep‐sea beyond
200 nautical miles from shore increased by a factor of more than 10. While high seas …

Based on the average level of seafood consumption in the United States (US), the 2010
Dietary Guidelines for Americans encourages citizens to double their intake to improve the …

We present the first data on hawksbill turtle post-nesting migrations and behaviour in the
Arabian region. Tracks from 90 post-nesting turtles (65 in the Gulf and 25 from Oman) …

Since the first volume of The Biology of Sea Turtles was published in 1997, the field has
grown and matured in ways few of the authors would have predicted—particularly in the …

For decades, fisheries have been managed to limit the accidental capture of vulnerable
species and many of these populations are now rebounding. While encouraging from a …

Strandings of marine megafauna can provide valuable information on cause of death at sea.
However, as stranding probabilities are usually very low and highly variable in space and …