The harvest of marine resources has long‐standing cultural and economic importance to
The Bahamas and other small island developing states. Tourists and residents place a …

Tropical and subtropical coastal flats are shallow regions of the marine environment at the
intersection of land and sea. These regions provide myriad ecological goods and services …

Pharmaceutical uptake involves processes that vary across aquatic systems and biota.
However, single studies examining multiple environmental compartments, microhabitats …

Shark depredation, the full or partial removal of a hooked fish by a shark before it is landed,
is anecdotally increasing in the United States. Perceptions of depredation by anglers and …

Local ecological knowledge (LEK) is a valuable way to capture environmental and/or
resource changes when there is an absence of biological data, such as in the case of 'data …

The localized scale of most fisheries management does not account for potential regional
connectivity, particularly for fish species with prolonged planktonic larval durations (PLD) …

Spatial data are key to fishery management; however, most often the spatial distribution of
marine populations and fishing dynamics are poorly documented, especially for recreational …

Coastal marine fisheries and the habitats that support them are under extensive and
increasing pressures from numerous anthropogenic stressors that occur at multiple spatial …

Recreational fisheries managers are often challenged by the lack of long-term data to
monitor the status and trends of fisheries. Tournament records may provide a useful source …

Local ecological knowledge (LEK) can be a valuable approach to fill in knowledge gaps in
data-limited systems. Recent research has aimed to make LEK more quantitative-a key step …