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 …

New research in fisheries economics addresses incentives across many margins. These
margins include within-season effects, incentives to harvest different ages and sizes of fish …

This article examines the performance of four 'new governance'techniques of regulation in
the period leading up to the financial crisis: principles based regulation, risk based …

Sharks and their cartilaginous relatives (Class Chondrichthyes, herein 'sharks') are one of
the world's most threatened species groups. Their slow life history traits and vulnerability to …

Despite their importance for human well-being, nearshore fisheries are often data poor,
undervalued, and underappreciated in policy and development programs. We assess the …

Increasing attention by consumers to the social and environmental dimensions of the food
they eat has generated many different responses, including certification programs, watch …

Fisheries bycatch conservation and management can be analyzed and implemented
through the biodiversity mitigation hierarchy using one of four basic approaches:(1) private …

Wild-capture fisheries help provide food security to billions of people, yet bycatch of non-
target species threatens ecosystem health and fishery sustainability. Appropriate monitoring …

In most fisheries, a number of species are unintentionally caught as bycatch while
attempting to catch the targeted species. While much of the bycatch problem is technological …

Fisheries bycatch threatens populations of marine megafauna such as marine mammals,
turtles, seabirds, sharks and rays, but fisheries impacts on non-target populations are often …