There is a need to better understand the survivorship of discarded fishes, both for
commercial stocks and species of conservation concern. Within European waters, the …

There is a widely recognized need to understand and reduce the incidental effects of marine
fishing on non-target animals. Previous research on marine bycatch has largely focused on …

This topical and exciting textbook describes fisheries exploitation, biology, conservation and
management, and reflects many recent and important changes in fisheries science. These …

Unselective fishing catches non-target organisms as 'bycatch'—an issue of critical ocean
conservation and resource management concern. However, the situation is confused …

The 1996 Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act mandates that
regional fishery management councils must designate essential fish habitat (EFH) for each …

More than 50% of the world's total marine catch (approximately 81 million tonnes) is
harvested using towed fishing gears (ie Danish seines, dredges and otter and beam trawls) …

1. Beam-trawling is a source of physical disturbance to marine sedimentary communities in
areas less than 50m deep, on the western European continental shelf. Chains attached …

The increase in commercial fisheries production over the last 50 years has been
accompanied by an increase in the level of incidental catch and discarding of a number of …

The aggregation and feeding behaviour of invertebrate scavengers in areas disturbed by
trawling was investigated at three different localities. At each site a fishing disturbance was …

Cryptic, not readily detectable, components of fishing mortality are not routinely accounted
for in fisheries management because of a lack of adequate data, and for some components …