Participatory approaches to fisheries management are gaining increasing support from researchers, non-governmental organizations, and governments in Latin America, and different forms of participatory monitoring have been ...

Many artisanal fisheries along coastal zones all over the world belong to the “S” type: small-scale, spatially-structured, targeting sedentary stocks [“S” is derived from the number of times that the letter s appears in ...

The application of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) in the Mediterranean and Black Sea faces several challenges also because of large ecological, economic, political and institutional differences across the basin. The ...

The effects of recreational fishing on marine stocks and ecosystems have raised global concern in recent years. In Argentina, Southwest Atlantic, angling, netting and spearfishing of coastal bony fishes, sharks, rays and ...

Monthly samples of Doryteuthis plei were obtained from the small-scale hand-jigging fishery aroundSão Sebastião Island (24◦S), Brazil, across seven fishing seasons (November–April) during the period2002–2012, with the aim ...

Incidental mortality in fisheries is the main at-sea threat albatrosses are facing nowadays. In this study we used remote sensing techniques to model the degree of spatial overlapping between the Black-browed albatross ...