The science of hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: a review

TS Bianchi, SF DiMarco, JH Cowan Jr… - Science of the Total …, 2010 - Elsevier
The Mississippi River is one of the world's 10 largest rivers, with average freshwater
discharge into the northern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) of 380km3year− 1. In the northern GOM …

Pelagic protected areas: the missing dimension in ocean conservation

ET Game, HS Grantham, AJ Hobday… - Trends in ecology & …, 2009 - cell.com
Fewer protected areas exist in the pelagic ocean than any other ecosystem on Earth.
Although there is increasing support for marine protected areas (MPAs) as a tool for pelagic …

Can catch shares prevent fisheries collapse?

C Costello, SD Gaines, J Lynham - Science, 2008 - science.org
Recent reports suggest that most of the world's commercial fisheries could collapse within
decades. Although poor fisheries governance is often implicated, evaluation of solutions …

Examining the knowledge base and status of commercially exploited marine species with the RAM Legacy Stock Assessment Database

D Ricard, C Minto, OP Jensen, JK Baum - Fish and fisheries, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Meta‐analyses of stock assessments can provide novel insight into marine population
dynamics and the status of fished species, but the world's main stock assessment database …

Management effectiveness of the world's marine fisheries

C Mora, RA Myers, M Coll, S Libralato, TJ Pitcher… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Ongoing declines in production of the world's fisheries may have serious ecological and
socioeconomic consequences. As a result, a number of international efforts have sought to …

The trophic fingerprint of marine fisheries

TA Branch, R Watson, EA Fulton, S Jennings… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Biodiversity indicators provide a vital window on the state of the planet, guiding policy
development and management,. The most widely adopted marine indicator is mean trophic …

Contrasting global trends in marine fishery status obtained from catches and from stock assessments

TA Branch, OP Jensen, D Ricard, Y Ye… - Conservation …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
There are differences in perception of the status of fisheries around the world that may partly
stem from how data on trends in catches over time have been used. On the basis of catch …

Unexpected patterns of fisheries collapse in the world's oceans

ML Pinsky, OP Jensen, D Ricard… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding which species are most vulnerable to human impacts is a prerequisite for
designing effective conservation strategies. Surveys of terrestrial species have suggested …

Food security implications of global marine catch losses due to overfishing

UT Srinivasan, WWL Cheung, R Watson… - Journal of …, 2010 - Springer
Excess fishing capacity and the growth in global demand for fishery products have made
overfishing ubiquitous in the world's oceans. Here we describe the potential catch losses …

Identifying thresholds for ecosystem-based management

JF Samhouri, PS Levin, CH Ainsworth - PLoS One, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background One of the greatest obstacles to moving ecosystem-based management (EBM)
from concept to practice is the lack of a systematic approach to defining ecosystem-level …