A couple weeks ago, Daniel Pauly and I got the paper Funding Priorities: Big Barriers to Small-scale Fisheries published in the journal Conservation Biology. In our analysis, we try to demonstrate that conservationists attempts to encourage sustainable fisheries at the market level should place at least equal emphasis on eliminating harmful fisheries subsidies as on consumer-based approaches (e...

Market preferences of natural resources contribute to shape their exploitation and production. Beche-de-mer, the product after gutting, cooking, salting and drying sea cucumbers, is exported worldwide to Asian dried seafood markets. A better understanding of the trade, value and market preferences of Pacific island beche-de-mer could identify critical postharvest processing techniques and manag...

Global fisheries statistics exist since 1950, as part of the United Nations’ effort to generate statistics suitable for monitoring the development of the world economy (Ward, 2004). With some limitation to be discussed later, the statistics assembled and maintained by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) allow tracking the growth and expansion of fisheries by countr...

Globally, small-scale fisheries are influenced by dynamic climate, governance, and market drivers, which present social and ecological challenges and opportunities. It is difficult to manage fisheries adaptively for fluctuating drivers, except to allow participants to shift effort among multiple fisheries. Adapting to changing conditions allows small-scale fishery participants to survive econom...

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is charged with restoring and protecting anadromous Pacific salmon stocks in all habitats of U.S. waters, including their period of residence in estuarine and oceanic waters. Recent studies have implicated the estuarine and coastal phase of the salmon life cycle as being of equal importance to the freshwater phase in determining production. Evaluatio...

* Freshwater Fisheries Research Division, National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Fisheries Research Agency, Ueda, Japan Laboratory of Animal Sociology, Department of Biology and Geosciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan Center for Marine Environmental Studies, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan § Laboratory of Animal Ecology, Graduate School of Scie...

The Great Lakes Fishery Commission, recognizing the importance of social impacts on Great Lakes fisheries and the shortage of information on ‘‘human dimensions,’’ launched a new research theme. It seeks to fill knowledge gaps in the areas of legal and institutional frameworks governing fisheries, constructing effective processes that better inform management decision making, and the role and im...

1Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, No. 8, 1st Wudayuan Road, East Lake Hi-Tech Development Zone, Wuhan, Hubei 430223, China 2Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Zátiš́ı 728/II, 389 25 Vodňany, Czech Republic 3Biomedical Sciences Research Building (BSRB), University of Michigan, 109 Zina Pit...

a European Community Reference Laboratory for Crustacean Disease, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), Barrack Road, Weymouth, Dorset DT4 8UB, United Kingdom b Epidemiology and Risk Team, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), Barrack Road, Weymouth, Dorset DT4 8UB, United Kingdom c Fish Health Inspectorate, Centre for Environment, Fishe...

Slooten et al. (1) claim the survey respondents from New Zealand, one of 28 countries considered in our paper in PNAS (2), were strongly biased toward the fishing industry. The six survey responses comprised a range of background experience: three government/science respondents (added here as coauthors), including the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research’s Chief Scientist–Fisher...