One role of Marine Protected Areas is to protect biodiversity; however, illegal fishing activity
can reduce the effectiveness of protection. Quantifying illegal fishing effort within no-take …

Fisheries management uses a variety of methods to assess stocks, assign quota or
allocations, and calculate potential for sustainability. In the New Zealand abalone (pāua) …

Illegal fishing is a global issue that threatens the viability of fishing industries and
biodiversity conservation. Management agencies typically use on‐ground surveillance to …

This paper extends criminological interpretations of risky facilities to focus on how illegal
fishing is concentrated in a small number of places in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in …

Eastern Pacific abalone are part of the multitrillion dollar ocean economy. Abalone have a
long history as food and are culturally significant for First Nations as well as the basis for …

Species typically occupy fewer sites, and average population densities decline from the
centre to the edge of a species' range when the range contracts. The poaching of …

This paper deals with study of fractal properties of poaching statistics for Indian Rhinoceros
at Kaziranga National Park. The statistics used for study comprises time series of total …