Fishing provides high quality seafood and creates employment and income for people
worldwide. Most of the capture methods used for fishing are, however, heavily dependent on …

Fishing with an artificial light stimulus has existed for thousands of years. It started with
simple techniques such as burning a large fire on the beach to attract fish, but over the …

Considerable time and money are expended in the pursuit of catching fish with hooks (eg,
handlining, angling, longlining, trolling, drumlining) across the recreational, commercial and …

commercial longline fishing data were analyzed and experiments were conducted with gear
equipped with hook timers and time-depth recorders in the reunion island fishery (21 …

Better knowledge of food search behaviour in fish is essential for studies that aim to improve
longline fishing, particularly through bait development. This review provides an overview of …

For many years, tremendous effort has been dedicated to developing new industrial tuna
fisheries, while their adverse impacts on threatened marine species have received relatively …

Most fishes and crustaceans respond to light, and artificial light sources may therefore be an
efficient stimulus to manipulate behaviours in aquatic animals. It has been hypothesised that …

Tuna fisheries have been identified as one of the major threats to populations of other
marine vertebrates, including sea turtles, sharks, seabirds and marine mammals. The …

Potentially harmful contact between fisheries and marine vulnerable species represents a
global conservation issue and efforts to mitigate the negative repercussions of these …

Globally, many gillnet fisheries have excessive discards which can comprise charismatic
megafauna threatened with extinction, including numerous elasmobranchs. Very few …