Most fisheries literature avoids speaking about ecosystem impacts of fishing, either because
impacts are not demonstrated or because a causal relationship between impacts and fishing …

Long-line by-catch of albatrosses and petrels may soon lead to species extinctions. Set-net
bycatch has caused major reductions in certain seabird populations. Some fisheries may …

Worldwide fisheries generate large volumes of fishery waste and it is often assumed that this
additional food is beneficial to populations of marine top-predators. We challenge this …

Seabirds and fisheries have been interacting from ancient times, sometimes with mutual
benefits: Seabirds provided fishermen with visual cues of fish aggregations, and also fed …

Most types of fishery produce discards and offal in considerable quantities which are fed
upon by seabirds. This paper demonstrates the importance to seabirds of fishery waste in …

After a brief description of purse seining and the other methods used to catch yellowfin tuna
in the eastern Pacific Ocean, some consideration s are made on the tuna--dolphin …

The increase in commercial fisheries production over the last 50 years has been
accompanied by an increase in the level of incidental catch and discarding of a number of …

The factors affecting the number and the mortality rates of seabirds attending long-liners and
trawlers fishing in the Kerguelen area were studied during four successive seasons (1994 …

The establishment of a two month commercial fishing moratorium, which overlapped each
year with different stages of the breeding cycle of the Yellow‐legged Gull Larus cachinnans …

A longline fishery for Dissostichus eleginoides has recently developed in the vicinity of
South Georgia and Kerguelen islands, two internationally important breeding areas for …