Fishing has become a major conservation threat to marine fishes. Effective conservation of
threatened species requires timely identification of vulnerable species. However, evaluation …

Despite rather broad definitions, global analysis showed that seamount fishes, particularly
seamountaggregating fishes, had higher intrinsic vulnerability than other groups of fishes …

The decline and disappearance of species from large parts of their former geographical
range has become an important issue in fisheries ecology. There is a need to identify which …

One of the fundamental problems conservation biologists face when they provide advice to
managers is how to characterise and account for the uncertainties which result from …

Largebodied species are especially vulnerable to fishing in mixed fisheries. Their effective
conservation requires predictions of sensitivity and exposure to fishing mortality, but such …

All ecologists are familiar with uncertainty, at least at the level of whether they should reject a
null hypothesis. Uncertainty is, however, pervasive and its characterization is essential if we …

In response to congressional action, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) in 2009 revised the National …

The purpose of this paper is to review recent work on four key challenges in fisheries
science and management:(1) dealing with pervasive uncertainties and risks;(2) estimating …

Threats to species from commercial fishing are rarely identified until species have suffered
large population declines, by which time remedial actions can have severe economic …

This paper describes some of the ways that the uncertainty in fisheries scientific advice has
been communicated to managers for different fisheries in the United States in the past …