Size‐based indicators are used worldwide in research that supports the management of
commercially exploited wild fish populations, because of their responsiveness to fishing …

Food-web indicators for marine management are required to describe the functioning and
structure of marine food-webs. In Europe, the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) …

Effective ecological indicators (EI) should reflect changes to ecosystem status in a timely
manner to guide fisheries management; however, the robustness of EIs in the face of …

The implementation of food web criteria in the Marine Strategy Framework Directive context
faces several difficulties, namely the lack of data for relevant taxa, the absence of …

Conventional fish monitoring requires considerable investments of equipment and labour,
and often harmful and potentially fatal techniques. Emerging methods allow detection of …

The environmental assessment and monitoring of marine systems aim is to reveal the
condition of ecosystem components, assess the effects of anthropogenic pressures and …