Assessing the vulnerability of sensitive species in Mediterranean fisheries: insights from productivity-susceptibility analysis

D Li Veli, JCB Barrionuevo, G Bargione… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Mortality resulting from interactions with fishing gears represent an important threat to
sensitive species globally. In this study, we address this issue by defining five species …

Looking into the prevalence of bycatch juveniles of critically endangered elasmobranchs: a case study from pelagic longline and trammel net fisheries of the Asinara …

U Scacco, E Gennari, S Di Crescenzo… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Bycatch of cartilaginous species is considered one of the main drivers for the dramatic
declines observed in many populations. Pelagic longlines and passive nets impact many …

Effects of gear modifications in a North Atlantic pelagic longline fishery: A multiyear study

FD Lima, H Parra, RB Alves, MAR Santos, KA Bjorndal… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The threat of population declines caused by pelagic longline fisheries in the Atlantic has
increased the concern to find strategies that minimize the bycatch and mortality of non-target …

Blue shark vertical movement patterns in the Central Mediterranean: bycatch mitigation windows revealed from pop-up satellite archival tag data

P Carbonara, G Prato, S Alfonso, M Bottaro… - Reviews in Fish Biology …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract In the Mediterranean Sea, pelagic longline fisheries, targeting tuna and swordfish,
have contributed significantly to the bycatch of threatened chondrichthyan species, such as …