There are two diverging views of the status and future of the world's fisheries. One group represented largely by academic marine ecologists sees almost universal failure of fisheries management and calls for the use of marine-protected areas as the central tool of a new approach to rebuilding the marine ecosystems of the world. The scientists working in fisheries agencies and many academic sci...

Osmoregulatory capabilities of the gray snapper, Lutjanus griseus: salinity challenges and field observations Xaymara Serrano a , Joseph Serafy a b & Martin Grosell a a Division of Marine Biology and Fisheries, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33149, USA b Southeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries...

Generating awareness of environmental conservation issues among the public is essential if there is an expectation of them to alter their behaviour, facilitate informed decisions and engage governments or regulatory authorities to take action. There are, however, exceedingly few public engagement success stories related to inland fishes and fisheries policy and resource allocation decisions. In...

Coastal fisheries are an important. component of the fisheries sector and rural economy of tropical developing countries in Asia generating food, employment and foreign exchange. In 1994, marine landings of these countries were about 13.3 million t (roughly 16% of world marine landings), most originating from coastal areas. The coastal fishery resources consist dominantly of species with relati...

Amidst overexploited fisheries and further climate related declines projected in tropical fisheries, marine dependent small-scale fishers in Southeast Asia face an uncertain future. Yet, small-scale fishers are seldom explicitly considered in regional fisheries management and their contribution to national fish supply tends to be greatly under-estimated compared to industrial fisheries. Lack of...

Women’s involvement in fisheries is more significant than often assumed. according to current estimates from nine major fish producing countries, they comprise 46% of the labor force in smallscale capture fisheries-related activities, including preand post-harvesting work. Their current engagement is shaped by rapidly dwindling fisheries stocks on one hand, and the increased global demand for f...

Since the mid-1990s there has been a concerted effort to encourage fisheries sustainability by targeting large-scale, high-catch fisheries and by raising consumer awareness. Because of the often slow pace of regulatory approaches, this voluntary, market-oriented effort has been structured so as to avoid government involvement. But have smallscale fisheries, our best option for sustainable use o...

Woods Hole Lab, NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, MA, USA, Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, Dover, DE, USA, 3 Sandy Hook Lab, NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Highlands, NJ, USA, Narragansett Lab, NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Narragansett, RI, USA, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Solomons, ...

1 Ecology Graduate Group, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA, 2 Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA, 3 Resource Ecology and Fisheries Management Division, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, Seattle, WA, USA, 4 Department of Environmental Sc...

1 leibniz institute of Marine sciences (iFM-geoMar), duesternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, germany. e-mail: [email protected] 2 sustainable Fisheries, department of economics, university of Kiel, Wilhelm-seelig platz 1, 24118 Kiel, germany. 3 institute of sea Fisheries, Johann heinrich von thünen-institut, Federal research institute for rural areas, Forestry and Fisheries, palmaille 9, 2276...