The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has brought a global socio-economic crisis to
almost all sectors including the fishery. To limit the infection, governments adopted several …

Climate change is altering the functioning of ecosystems and species distribution worldwide,
with negative impacts on human activities, including fisheries. The Adriatic Sea is an …

Trawl fishing activities have occurred for centuries on large spatial scale in the entire
Mediterranean Sea, and today they are considered as one of the main and widespread …

Coastal ecosystems provide a wide range of valuable ecosystem services (ES) for human
wellbeing. Such services depend on the functioning and structure of ecosystems …

Bottom trawling, which is highly detrimental to seabed habitats, has been banned in some
jurisdictions to mitigate the problems of habitat destruction and overfishing. However, most …

Bangladesh has introduced a monsoonal fishery closure in the Bay of Bengal to ensure the
conservation of fish stocks and productive breeding grounds. While the fishing ban has likely …

This paper reports the results of a 15-year trawl ban imposed in 1990 in the Gulf of
Castellammare (GCAST: NW Sicily, central Mediterranean Sea) and its effects on the …

This study uses a tiered approach to assessing progress towards achieving the Convention
on Biological Diversity (CBD) target to increase marine protected area (MPA) coverage to …

Countless submerged rocky formations are scattered in the marine coastal area of the
Veneto region (Northern Adriatic Sea, Italy). They are known to be suitable substrates for …

In the Southeastern region of Mexico, fisheries are complex encompassing several fleets
that target multiple species with the use of multiple gears. Despite this complexity, they have …