There is a need to better understand the survivorship of discarded fishes, both for
commercial stocks and species of conservation concern. Within European waters, the …

Concerns about the welfare of production animals have extended from farm animals to fish,
but an overview of the impact of especially capture fisheries on fish welfare is lacking. This …

Marine recreational fishing (MRF) has been shown to substantially contribute to fishing
mortality of marine fish. However, European MRF catches are only quantified for a small …

Discarding non‐target fish from commercial fisheries is controversial and has been a
persistent concern for fisheries managers globally. Discard management strategies typically …

Abstract The European Commission landing obligation, including species-specific “high
survival” exemptions, has established a need for accurate discard survival estimates. This …

Under the “high survival” exemption of the European landing obligation or discard ban,
monitoring vitality and survival of European flatfish becomes relevant to a discard-intensive …

A host of regulations should protect fish, a common-pool resource, from overexploitation, but
detecting violations of these regulations is challenging, both at sea and in port. We present a …

Abstract In the North Sea flatfish fishery, electric pulse trawls have been introduced to
replace the conventional mechanical method. Pulse trawls reduce the fuel consumption …

Conservation concerns and new management policies such as the implementation of
ecosystem-based approaches to fisheries management are motivating an increasing need …

Worldwide, many species of elasmobranchs (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii) are currently
threatened by marine fisheries activity and are on the Red List of the International Union for …