Overfishing drives over one-third of all sharks and rays toward a global extinction crisis

NK Dulvy, N Pacoureau, CL Rigby, RA Pollom… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
The scale and drivers of marine biodiversity loss are being revealed by the International
Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List assessment process. We present the first …

Half a century of global decline in oceanic sharks and rays

N Pacoureau, CL Rigby, PM Kyne, RB Sherley… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Overfishing is the primary cause of marine defaunation, yet declines in and increasing
extinction risks of individual species are difficult to measure, particularly for the largest …

Surplus production models: a practical review of recent approaches

M Cousido-Rocha, MG Pennino, F Izquierdo… - Reviews in Fish Biology …, 2022 - Springer
Increasing the knowledge of approaches to estimate the status of data-limited stocks is of
crucial importance since the vast majority of stocks are data-limited, ie, there is not enough …

Conservation successes and challenges for wide-ranging sharks and rays

N Pacoureau, JK Carlson… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Overfishing is the most significant threat facing sharks and rays. Given the growth in
consumption of seafood, combined with the compounding effects of habitat loss, climate …

Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it: A perspective on current stock assessment good practices and the consequences of not following them

AE Punt - Fisheries Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The ideal stock assessment would be able to estimate all of the key parameters related to
population processes within a framework that assigns appropriate weight to the data, fits the …

First large-scale eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea stock assessment reveals a dramatic decline

N Demirel, M Zengin, A Ulman - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The Mediterranean Sea is classified as a “data-poor” region in fisheries due to its low
number of assessed stocks given its biodiversity and number of exploited species. In this …

Improving estimates of the state of global fisheries depends on better data

D Ovando, R Hilborn, C Monnahan, M Rudd… - Fish and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals requires
assessments of the global state of fish populations. While we have reliable estimates of …

A cookbook for using model diagnostics in integrated stock assessments

F Carvalho, H Winker, D Courtney, M Kapur, L Kell… - Fisheries …, 2021 - Elsevier
Integrated analysis has increasingly been the preferred approach for conducting stock
assessments and providing the basis for management advice for fish and invertebrate stocks …

Game Theory for Managing Evolving Systems: Challenges and Opportunities of Including Vector-Valued Strategies and Life-History Traits

M Kleshnina, S Streipert, JS Brown… - Dynamic Games and …, 2023 - Springer
Nature exhibits rapid evolution in response to human activities. When using natural
resources for their own profit, humans should account for such responses. Stackelberg …

Comparative performance of data-poor CMSY and data-moderate SPiCT stock assessment methods when applied to data-rich, real-world stocks

P Bouch, C Minto, DG Reid - ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2021 - academic.oup.com
All fish stocks should be managed sustainably, yet for the majority of stocks, data are often
limited and different stock assessment methods are required. Two popular and widely used …