The impacts of climate change on marine species are often compounded by other stressors that make direct attribution and prediction difficult. Shy albatrosses (Thalassarche cauta) breeding on Albatross Island, Tasmania, show an unusually restricted foraging range, allowing easier discrimination between the influence of non-climate stressors (fisheries bycatch) and environmental variation. Local...

Bycatch in longline fisheries threatens the viability of some seabird populations. The Hawaii longline swordfish fishery reduced seabird captures by an order of magnitude primarily through mitigating bycatch during setting. Now, 75% of captures occur during hauling. We fit observer data to a generalized additive regression model with mixed effects to determine the significance of the effect of ...

S Pelagic deep longline was widely used in targeting tunas of high economic values with other fish species caught incidentally as bycatch. Identifying characteristics of vertical distribution of fish species that interact with longline can provide critical information needed for the development of effective measures to mitigate bycatch species and is essential for ecosystem conservation. Much w...

© The Ecological Society of America www.frontiersinecology.org G fisheries provide approximately 16% of all protein consumed by humans, employ about 200 million people, and are valued at US$82 billion (Botsford et al. 1997; FAO Fisheries Department 2004). Eight percent, or 7.2 million tons, of the global catch is comprised of non-target species and discarded, and this mortality is having major ...

The incidental capture, or bycatch, of non-target species such as mammals, birds, turtles, fish and other marine species in fisheries is recognised to be a major problem in many parts of the world. It has been estimated that 23% of the global fisheries catch is thrown back into the sea dead and wasted. Globally, the toll on all cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) is estimated to exceed 3...

Bycatch in longline fisheries threatens the viability of some seabird populations. The Hawaii longline swordfish fishery reduced seabird captures by an order of magnitude primarily through mitigating bycatch during setting. Now, 75% of captures occur during hauling. We fit observer data to a generalized additive regression model with mixed effects to determine the significance of the effect of ...