Achieving sustainable and climate‐resilient fisheries requires marine ecosystem forecasts to include fish condition

The role of marine reserves in achieving sustainable fisheries.

Many fishery management tools currently in use have conservation value. They are designed to maintain stocks of commercially important species above target levels. However, their limitations are evident from continuing declines in fish stocks throughout the world. We make the case that to reverse fishery declines, safeguard marine life and sustain ecosystem processes, extensive marine reserves ...

Sustainable Livelihoods and an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management

Irreducible uncertainties, sustainable fisheries and marine reserves

Marine reserves are increasingly proposed as a management tool. Models can play a valuable role in the evaluation of the possible benefits of reserves because they allow us to conduct many more investigations than could ever be done empirically. In this paper, I develop a model for a marine reserve for an open population subject to environmental uncertainty.

Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science

The fishery for spiny lobster Panulirus argus in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is well chronicled, but little information is available on the prevalence of lost or abandoned lobster traps. In 2007, towed-diver surveys were used to identify and count pieces of trap debris and any other marine debris encountered. Trap debris density (debris incidences/ha) in historic trap-use zones a...

By-Catch and Discard Management: The Key to Achieving Responsible and Sustainable Fisheries in Europe

The unnecessary death of juvenile and mature individuals of commercial species undermines the health of stocks and jeopardizes future yields, threatening the long term economic sustainability of European fisheries. Moreover the capture of non-commercial species (fish, sea birds, sponges...) severely impacts the marine environment by disrupting the balance of the ecosystem and attacking its biod...