The natural mortality of exploited fish populations is often assumed to be a species‐specific
constant independent of body size. This assumption has important implications for size …

Abstract Rice, JC, and Garcia, SM 2011. Fisheries, food security, climate change, and
biodiversity: characteristics of the sector and perspectives on emerging issues.–ICES …

Abstract Models are key tools for integrating a wide range of system information in a
common framework. Attempts to model exploited marine ecosystems can increase …

Some fishery characteristics such as total discards are often inferred from data collected by
at-sea observers on a subset of fishing trips. Such inference is predicated on the assumption …

Ecological data sets rarely extend back more than a few decades, limiting our understanding
of environmental change and its drivers. Marine historical ecology has played a critical role …

Most stocks of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) in the Northwest Atlantic collapsed in the early
1990s, with little sign of recovery since then. In the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence (sGSL), the …

Understanding the factors affecting the likelihood that discarded fish will die can contribute
to better management of resources by enhancing the potential for successful live release …

Improved understanding of the dynamics of populations at low abundance is needed in the
face of global biodiversity loss. We examined the dynamics of depleted demersal fish …

Coral reef ecosystems are exceptionally complex with a myriad of trophic pathways and
consumer relationships. The application of stable isotopes (SIs) offers numerous …

The world's seas and oceans are a vital source of animal protein from fishing and a major
contributor to global food security. It has been argued that global wild‐catch production has …