Abstract Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing is a global phenomenon
occurring across all fishery types, sectors and geographies. In order to successfully address …

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 …

Since the beginning of the 21st century, electronic monitoring (EM) has emerged as a cost‐
efficient supplement to existing catch monitoring programmes in fisheries. An EM system …

This open access book provides a comprehensive examination of the European Landing
Obligation policy from many relevant perspectives. It includes evaluations of its impacts at …

Discarding by fisheries is perceived as contrary to responsible harvesting. Legislation
seeking to end the practice is being introduced in many jurisdictions. However, discarded …

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 …

Pulse trawling is used to a growing extent in the Dutch flatfish beam trawl fleet, and deemed
as a promising alternative to tickler chain beam trawling. A comparative fishing experiment …

When evaluating fishing gear catches, the focus is often on a few species as opposed to the
entire catch. In some fisheries this can lead to ignoring major part of catch composition …

Abstract Article 4 of EU Regulation 1380/2013 on the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) define
'technical measure'as “a measure that regulates the composition of catches by species and …

This paper investigates the impact of the European Union landing obligation in the Galician
(North West of Spain) multispecies small-scale gillnet fishery. By combining results from …