Spiny (rock) lobsters occur globally and, although harvest is dominated by commercial
fisheries, it is important to account for recreational harvest in stock assessments and …

Fisheries are supposed to be for the benefit of society, producing food, providing livelihoods
and enabling cultural continuity. Biological productivity goals for fish stocks operationalised …

Recreational fishing (RF) is a large yet undervalued component of fisheries globally. While
progress has been made in monitoring, assessing, and managing the sector in isolation …

The imperative to include stakeholders and rightsholders in fisheries management over the
past 30 years has led to many changes in management regimes around the world, a key …

Over recent decades it has become widely accepted that managing fisheries resources
means managing human behaviour, and so understanding social and economic dynamics …

Assessing the stock status of mixed and/or multi-species fishery resources is challenging.
This is especially true in highly diverse systems, where landed catches are small, but …

It is increasingly recognized that effective fisheries management needs to take into account
not only the target species, but also the broader scope of biological, environmental, socio …

Fishery managers worldwide are evaluating methods for incorporating climate, habitat,
ecological, social, and economic factors into current operations in order to implement …

Recreational fishing (RF) is a popular pastime resulting in substantial fish mortality in many
regions. Yet inclusion of RF in fishery harvest strategies is limited, because the sector's …

We develop a potentially widely applicable framework for analysing the vulnerability,
resilience risk and exposure of chondrichthyan species to all types of anthropogenic …