Nephrops norvegicus (L.) is widely distributed in the north‐east Atlantic and Mediterranean.
The species forms burrows in muddy sediments and is found wherever conditions are …

Discarding is a common practice in fisheries. Total discards are estimated to be about 30
million tons, representing around 23% of worldwide catches. Discarding is an undesirable …

Worldwide fisheries generate large volumes of fishery waste and it is often assumed that this
additional food is beneficial to populations of marine top-predators. We challenge this …

Hagfishes (Myxinidae), a family of jawless marine pre-vertebrates, hold a unique
evolutionary position, sharing a joint ancestor with the entire vertebrate lineage. They are …

A landing obligation was formally implemented in the European Union (EU) for the first time,
as part of the recent reform of the EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). Given the reasonable …

Climate change, fishing, and invasion by alien species are the drivers of global change that
mainly affect Patagonian marine fish assemblages. In this chapter, we reconstructed the …

Fisheries discards have become a source of concern for the perennation of marine
resources. To reduce discards, the European Union adopted a Landing Obligation under the …

Although the process of converting nutrients sequestered within carcasses has historically
been portrayed as occurring at the detrital level, there is a growing consensus that …

Seabirds and fisheries have been interacting from ancient times, sometimes with mutual
benefits: Seabirds provided fishermen with visual cues of fish aggregations, and also fed …

There is great variation in discarding practice among fisheries in different parts of the world.
Management systems result in some fisheries discarding mostly fish offal, much of which is …