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 …

Based on bird feeding ecology we identified 148 seabird species as susceptible to bycatch
in gillnets, of which 81 have been recorded caught. The highest densities of susceptible …

Bird mortality in fishing gear is a global conservation issue and it is recognised that bycatch
in industrial longline and trawl fisheries threatens several seabird species. Little is known …

Protection of the marine environment lags far behind that of terrestrial domains. To help
ameliorate this circumstance, top predators are being tracked to identify important ocean …

In 1992, the eastern Canadian gillnet fisheries for northern cod and Atlantic salmon were
largely closed. These large-scale fishery closures resulted in the removal of tens of …

Fisheries have an enormous economic importance, but reconciling their socio‐economic
features with the conservation and sustainability of marine ecosystems presents major …

We quantified species richness and abundance of seabirds and marine mammals in order to
identify marine areas that are persistently attractive to top predators. Shipboard surveys …

Climate change is altering the marine environment at a global scale, with some of the most
dramatic changes occurring in Arctic regions. These changes may affect the distribution and …

The quantification of entanglements of megafauna with plastic debris at sea is difficult to
assess for several reasons, such as detection and reporting biases. We used standardized …

Interspecific interactions help to shape individual-and population-level dynamics. As such,
similar species breeding sympatrically are expected to have a high potential for competition …