Coastal, small-scale fisheries (SSF), whether artisanal (professional) or recreational,
represent important socioeconomic activities across Europe that are currently undergoing a …

In contrast to the vast majority of European maritime territories, the Azores is an isolated
oceanic archipelago in the North East Atlantic characterised by small-scale hooks-and-lines …

During the last decade vessel-position-recording devices, such as the Vessel Monitoring
System and the Automatic Identification System, have increasingly given accurate spatial …

Discards remain among the main negative impacts of fishing activities, and their reductions
are strengthened by the European Common Fisheries Policy (European Regulation …

This paper investigates the impact of the European Union landing obligation in the Galician
(North West of Spain) multispecies small-scale gillnet fishery. By combining results from …

Understanding anthropogenic impacts are crucial to maintain marine ecosystem health. The
North Sea has changed in recent decades, largely due to commercial fishing and climate …

Discarding is considered globally among the most important issues for fisheries
management. The recent reform of the Common Fisheries Policy establishes a landing …

Artisanal fisheries in the Mediterranean are suffering from a decades-long crisis, and urgent
interventions are needed to reverse this trend. Despite the increasingly recognized …

Small-scale fisheries (SSF) use static gear which are thought to interact with marine
ecosystems more benignly than towed gear. Despite this, trammel nets, one of the most …

Although most fisheries assessment and management focuses on the status of individual
stocks, and regulations are commonly established as single‐species total allowable catch …