Recent and projected future changes in the temperature and chemistry of marine waters
around the UK and Ireland are having, and will in the future have, effects on the phenology …

This review summarizes the data on habitat, population ecology and ecosystem roles of
Nephrops norvegicus. The species has a broad range in the northeast Atlantic and …

Trophic level (TL)-based indicators have been widely used to examine fishing impacts in
aquatic ecosystems and the induced biodiversity changes. However, much debate has …

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 …

Stock‐based and ecosystem‐based indicators are used to provide a new diagnosis of the
fishing impact and environmental status of E uropean seas. In the seven European marine …

Probabilistic maturation reaction norms (PMRNs) were used to investigate the maturation
schedules of cod, haddock and whiting in the Firth of Clyde to determine if typical lengths at …

Spatial management is used extensively in natural resource management to address
sustainability and biodiversity issues, for example through declaration of terrestrial N ational …

Many over‐exploited marine ecosystems worldwide have lost their natural populations of
large predatory finfish and have become dominated by crustaceans and other invertebrates …

Fish that aggregate at predictable locations and times to spawn are often vulnerable to over-
exploitation. Seasonal closures have often been implemented in an attempt to alleviate such …

The Firth of Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland, was once one of the most productive
fishing grounds in Europe. However, successive decades of poor management and …