Many populations of elasmobranchs (sharks and rays) are experiencing severe declines
due to the high demand for shark fins in Asia, the activities of unregulated fisheries, and …

Many stakeholders, from governments to civil society to businesses, lack the data they need
to make informed decisions on biodiversity, jeopardising efforts to conserve, restore and …

The use of underwater video techniques has expanded rapidly in ecological studies and is
particularly desirable in protected areas since the method does not impact the habitat or …

Marine protected areas (MPAs) have become an increasingly important tool to protect and
conserve marine resources. However, there remains much debate about how effective …

The effective conservation of marine biodiversity through an integrated ecosystem-based
management approach requires a sound knowledge of the spatial distribution of habitats …

Oceans beyond the continental shelf represent the largest yet least protected environments.
The new agreement to increase protection targets to 30% by 2030 and the recent United …

We consider the challenge of tracking and estimating the size of a single submerged target
in a high reverberant underwater environment using a single active acoustic transceiver …

Monitoring of the marine environment requires large amounts of data, simply due to its vast
size. Therefore, underwater autonomous vehicles and drones are increasingly deployed to …

Migrations of large pelagic fishes across the Pacific are usually inferred from tagging or
genetic studies. Even though these techniques have improved over time, they still fail to …

This manual relates to gear designed to acquire digital video imagery of macro-organisms
living in the ocean's water column, from small zooplankton (Letessier et al. 2013a) to marine …