The advent of big data and machine learning offers great promise for addressing conservation management questions in the oceans. Yet, few applications exist to mitigate overexploitation marine resources. Tropical tuna purse seine fisheries (TTPSF) are distributed worldwide account two thirds global catch. In these fisheries, use Drifting Fish Aggregating Devices (DFADs)— n-made floating objects...

High bycatch of non-target species and species of conservation concern often drives the implementation of fisheries policies. However, species- or fishery-specific policies may lead to indirect consequences, positive or negative, for other species or fisheries. We use an Atlantis ecosystem model of the Northern Gulf of California to evaluate the effects of fisheries policies directed at reducin...

Marine biological hotspots, or areas where high abundances of species overlap in space and time, are ecologically important areas because energy flow through marine food webs, a key ecosystem process, is maximized in these areas. I investigated whether top predators aggregated at persistent spawning sites of a key forage fish species, capelin (Mallotus villosus), on the NE coast of Newfoundland...