Billfish species (families Istiophoridae and Xiphiidae) are caught in artisanal, recreational,
and commercial fisheries throughout the Western Indian Ocean region. However, data and …

Many tropical reef fisheries are underperforming relative to maximum sustained yields
despite their importance for the economies and food security of natural resource dependent …

Tunas are among the most traded and valued fish species, and good traceability of tuna
products in the world market is needed to protect both consumers and tuna stocks. To that …

Tuna and billfish are large pelagic fish of ecological importance in open oceans. As top
predators with a long lifespan, they are prone to exposure to various contaminants such as …

The spatial-temporal environmental preferences and biomass aggregation of tropical tuna
from purse seine fishery in the Mozambique Channel (MZC) have barely been investigated …

Natural floating objects (NLOGs) are a major component of the habitat of pelagic species.
Since the 1990s, the number of floating objects in the open ocean has increased greatly as …

Concentrations, profiles and muscle-liver distribution of halogenated natural products
(HNPs) and anthropogenic persistent organic pollutants (POPs) were investigated in five …

Purse-seine fisheries use drifting Fish Aggregating Devices (dFADs), human-made floating
objects, to facilitate the capture of tropical tunas. Currently, the majority of dFADs are …

Abstract The United Republic of Tanzania has jurisdiction over a large marine area (223,000
km 2) of which over 92% is deeper than 200 m. These deep areas extend from, in most …

This study explores gear-based patterns in catch rates and catch composition of landings by
artisanal tuna fishers along the Kenya coast based on data collected at eight landing sites …