Global shrimp catches are reported primarily in association with large industrial trawling, but
they also occur through small-scale fishing, which plays a substantial role in traditional …

Bycatch and discards from small-scale fisheries (SSF) are usually ignored when compared
with industrial fisheries, not only by policy-makers, but also by scientists. Therefore, SSF …

Trawling is a controversial fishing method due to the perceived lack of selectivity of the net
and the resulting capture of a large quantity and diversity of non-target species. Here, we …

Tropical fisheries tend to be multispecies and require management approaches adapted to
high diversity but scarce and poorly informative data. Productivity and Susceptibility Analysis …

We used microsatellite DNA markers to examine the impact of the Fundão Dam failure, one
of the world's worst mining-related environmental disasters, on the genetic diversity of four …

Motorized trawling was banned off part of the Brazilian coast in 1990 due to environmental
impacts, thus artisanal fishermen adopted large beach seines as an alternative. No impact …

Human population growth and the technological advancements of the 20th and 21st
centuries have significantly altered human-environment interactions and led to …

The Haemulidae are one of the most abundant fish families along the Brazilian coast
(Rangel et al., 2007, Souza et al., 2007). They inhabit various habitats, but mostly use reef …

Fish assemblages in the surf zone can be influenced by the proximity to other habitats and
environments, exposure to waves, and variability in abiotic factors. This study assessed the …

It is commonly assumed that beach seining (BS) is more sustainable than bottom trawling
because it involves non-motorized operations and limited fishing power. However, no …