This report identifies the different effects the variability of fisheries resources has on society, the different groups (at individual, national and international level) which play a role in the decision-making process, and those sectors that are more seriously affected by resource fluctuations. The report also discusses the development of some fisheries in the past, sources of problems relate...

R. J. David Wells1,2*, Michael J. Kinney3, Suzanne Kohin4, Heidi Dewar4, Jay R. Rooker1,2, and Owyn E. Snodgrass3 Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston, 1001 Texas Clipper Rd, Galveston, TX 77553, USA Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 77843, USA Ocean Associates; Under Contract to Southwest Fisheries Science Ce...

Seals and humans often target the same food resource, leading to competition. This is of mounting concern with fish stocks in global decline. Grey seals were tracked from southeast Ireland, an area of mixed demersal and pelagic fisheries, and overlap with fisheries on the Celtic Shelf and Irish Sea was assessed. Overall, there was low overlap between the tagged seals and fisheries. However, whe...

The resilience of small-scale fisheries in developed and developing countries has been used to provide lessons to conventional managers regarding ways to transition toward a social-ecological approach to understanding and managing fisheries. We contribute to the understanding of the relationship between management and the resilience of small-scale fisheries in developed countries by looking at ...

Citation: Raicevich S, Battaglia P, Fortibuoni T, Romeo T, Giovanardi O and Andaloro F (2017) Critical Inconsistencies in Early Implementations of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive and Common Fisheries Policy Objectives Hamper Policy Synergies in Fostering the Sustainable Exploitation of Mediterranean Fisheries Resources. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:316. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00316 Critical Inco...

THEA C. JOHANOS, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 1601 Kapiolani Boulevard, Honolulu, Hawaii 96814, U.S.A.; ALBERT L. HARTING, Harting Biological Consulting, 8898 Sandy Creek Lane, Bozeman, Montana 59715, U.S.A.; TRACY A. WURTH, Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, 1000 Pope Road, Honolu...

1Department of Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, U.S.A. 2U.S. Geological Survey, Colorado Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, U.S.A. 3Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Seattle, WA, ...

United States fisheries are managed by regional councils. Fishermen can participate in fisheries managed by multiple councils, and effort controls in one region could lead to effort leakage into another. Using difference-in-differences, we test for leakage across regional fisheries boundaries for a catch share program in New England. We find evidence that the New England groundfish sector progr...

Fisheries data assembled by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) suggest that global marine fisheries catches increased to 86 million tonnes in 1996, then slightly declined. Here, using a decade-long multinational 'catch reconstruction' project covering the Exclusive Economic Zones of the world's maritime countries and the High Seas from 1950 to 2010, and accounting for all fisheries, we...

Failures in fisheries management have been linked to our inability to embrace the inherent uncertainty of fisheries systems. Fisheries decisions should be made on the basis of integrated evaluations of strategy alternatives, where comparisons of comprehensive scenarios incorporate strategic biological and socio-economic objectives and constraints, and explicitly take account of system uncertain...