Motivated by the need to estimate the abundance of marine mammal populations to inform
conservation assessments, especially relating to fishery bycatch, this paper provides …

Bycatch in marine fisheries is the leading source of human-caused mortality for marine
mammals, has contributed to substantial declines of many marine mammal populations and …

Abstract Information available on impacts of fisheries on target or bycatch species varies
greatly, requiring development of risk assessment tools to determine potentially …

Environmental policies, including the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive
(MSFD), generally rely on the measurement of indicators to assess the good environmental …

Bycatch, the non-intentional capture or killing of non-target species in commercial or
recreational fisheries, is a world wide threat to protected, endangered or threatened species …

Human‐caused mortality of wildlife is a pervasive threat to biodiversity. Assessing the
population‐level impact of fisheries bycatch and other human‐caused mortality of wildlife …

Stock assessment approaches are often oversimplified due to lack of biological knowledge
and insufficient data. In spite of world‐wide attention, fishery‐targeted coastal dolphin …

An assessment of the abundances and their trends is urgently needed for the conservation
and management of fishery-targeted and rarely seen cetacean species (FTCS and RSCS …

Most baleen whale populations are increasing after the end of industrial whaling, but their
recovery patterns challenge long‐standing assumptions about density dependence. It has …

Bycatch, the undesirable and non-intentional catch of non-target species in marine fisheries,
is one of the main causes of mortality of marine mammals worldwide. When quantitative …