Commercial fishers face a range of stressors that impact physical and mental health. However, there is limited research on the level ill-health among nature contribute to their psychological distress. This paper focuses experiences commercial wild-catch analyses results an Australian national survey conducted in 2017 (n = 872) (Appendix S1). We first assess underlying themes perceived stressors...

Over the past five years we have investigated and used commercial fishing vessels and their associated acoustic hardware as platforms for acoustic surveying and data collection. During this period we developed an automated acoustic logging system that will simultaneously record data from the ship’s existing sounder, sonar, and navigation systems. The system was designed to be self contained and...

Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from the offshore fisheries industry in the Republic of Korea (Korea) were examined in response to growing concerns about global warming and the contribution of emissions from different industrial sectors. Fuel usage and GHG emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O) were analysed using the 'Tier 1' method provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from the o...

A Markov decision process model is developed to investigate the optimal scheduling of haul setting and retrievals on a factory trawler in the Pacific hake (Merluccius productus) fishery. The model was used to investigate changes in fishing behavior during a temporary ban on night fishing in 1992. The cycle of setting the net, fishing, and retrieving the net is modeled with different costs for e...