Anchovy and sardine populated productive ocean regions over hundreds of thousands of
years under a naturally varying climate, and are now subject to climate change of equal or …

Population dynamics of small pelagic fishes (SPF) and their management in Japan were
reviewed for Japanese sardine Sardinops melanostictus, Japanese anchovy Engraulis …

Expansion in the world's human population and economic development will increase future
demand for fish products. As global fisheries yield is constrained by ecosystems productivity …

Forage fish support the largest fisheries in the world but also play key roles in marine food
webs by transferring energy from plankton to upper trophic-level predators, such as large …

The California Current System (CCS) is forced by the distribution of atmospheric pressure
and associated winds in relation to the west coast of North America. In this paper, we begin …

Coetzee, JC, van der Lingen, CD, Hutchings, L., and Fairweather, TP 2008. Has the fishery
contributed to a major shift in the distribution of South African sardine?–ICES Journal of …

Changes in two contrasting ecosystems of the Benguela upwelling region, one dominated at
mid-trophic level by jellyfishes (Namibia, northern Benguela ecosystem, where small pelagic …

Small pelagic fishes are used for human consumption, fishmeal and fish oil. They constitute
25% of global fish catch and have been of considerable conservation concern because of …

Due to their population characteristics and trophodynamic role, small pelagic fishes are
excellent bio-indicators of climate-driven changes in marine systems world-wide. We argue …

We investigated the relationships between stock biomass, distribution area and mean
density of sardine and anchovy populations off California, Peru, South Africa and Japan. Our …