Several populations of odontocete cetaceans, including at least 19 species, have modified
their behavior and adapted to foraging in association with trawlers. We review information …

Seabirds are amongst the most threatened taxa in the world, often due to incidental mortality
(bycatch) in fisheries. Hundreds of thousands are thought to be killed worldwide in gillnets …

Discarding is an issue of increasing concern and there is a growing number of studies
aiming at estimating discard amounts and characteristics. However, the sampling design …

Globally, many thousands of seabirds are killed accidentally in demersal trawl fisheries
through cable interactions and net entanglements. However, multi‐year datasets for …

Fisheries discards are often seen as a waste of resources and an impediment to the
management of fish stocks. However, many traditional fisheries management measures …

We analysed the extent to which European politicians have adhered to scientific
recommendations on annual total allowable catches (TACs) from 1987 to 2011, covering …

Marine mammal interactions with Portuguese purse-seine fisheries operating in four
different ports (Figueira da Foz, Sesimbra, Setúbal, Sines) were studied (July-October 2003) …

Abstract Borges, L., van Keeken, OA, van Helmond, ATM, Couperus, B., and Dickey-Collas,
M. 2008. What do pelagic freezer-trawlers discard?–ICES Journal of Marine Science, 65 …

The coastal waters of Northwest Africa (Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal) support a large
fishery on small pelagic fish. Super-trawlers from the European Union, mainly of Dutch …

Killer whale (Orcinus orca) encounters from commercial pelagic trawlers as well as other
types of vessels have been documented in several regions of the northeast Atlantic; …