Artisanal: fisheries that are small scale and subsistence in nature, in contrast to industrial. Artisanal fishing effort is often unmonitored by regional fishery commissions. Bycatch: the incidental take of undesirable size or age classes of the target species (e.g. juveniles or large females), or to the incidental take of other nontarget species. Individuals caught as bycatch can be unharmed, ...

The devil-ray family Mobulidae (order Myliobatiformes) comprises wide-ranging, pelagic batoids, but little is known about their basic ecology. We present the first data on the longdistance movement of mobulid devil rays. We attached pop-up archival satellite tags to 13 individuals of the spine-tail devil ray Mobula japanica (disk width 199.5 ± 30.0 cm; mean ± SD) off Baja California Sur to exam...

Picture credits: Close up photographs of mussels and cockles on the back cover courtesy of the Eastern Sea Fisheries Joint Committee. All other photographs, CEFAS. Introduction 1. Since 1970, previously artisanal fisheries for cockles and mussels in The Wash have been transformed by the rapid introduction of more powerful fishing gears and vessels and the modernisation of processing plant to se...

Yellowfin tuna, an important component of tuna fisheries throughout the WCPO, are harvested with a diverse variety of gear types, from small-scale artisanal fisheries in Pacific Island and southeast Asian waters to large, distant-water longliners and purse seiners that operate widely in equatorial and tropical waters. Purse seiners catch a wide size range of yellowfin tuna, whereas the longline...

Rights-based fisheries management (RBFM) seeks to create market incentives reduce competition, avoid overexploitation, and increase economic efficiency. Particularly for artisanal fisheries, however, assumptions of RBFM may not be met its use needs carefully considered. This study applies an existing tool (SEASALT) evaluate the strength based on attributes security, exclusivity, fish mortality,...

The TWP Gili Sulat and Lawang are one of the marine conservation areas in NTB Province. In this area, there is a sustainable fisheries zone that used by fishermen around area. However, lack information regarding capture activities has caused Provincial Government to have not been able make decisions for regulating these areas. Based on conditions, preliminary research carried out important. Dat...