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 …

A considerable amount of the existing knowledge of discards in the Mediterranean Sea is
presented. Discarding highly varies along the basin both geographically and among the …

A performance assessment was conducted of regional fisheries management
organizations'(RFMO s') bycatch governance, one element of an ecosystem approach to …

Elasmobranch mortality in pelagic longline fisheries poses a risk to some populations, alters
the distribution of abundance between sympatric competitors, changing ecosystem structure …

Conservation of ecologically related species and understanding the discard composition of
fisheries are major concerns for marine ecosystem conservation. However, high sea …

Monitoring and managing fisheries bycatch is increasingly recognized as a critical
component of robust fisheries management frameworks. This review, addressing this …

Sea turtles suffer from the cumulative and synergistic effects of natural phenomena and
human activities. Among the latter, incidental interaction with commercial fisheries is …

Circle hooks have been promoted as an alternative to traditional J-hooks in pelagic longline
fisheries to minimize bycatch mortality and injury to sea turtles and other marine wildlife. We …

Sixteen vessels within the deep-set Hawaii-based tuna longline fleet tested the catch
efficacy, fish size selectivity and survival on longline retrieval of large-size 18/0 circle hooks …

Declines in absolute abundance and altered size distributions from size‐selective removals
of market species of pelagic apex predators in tuna fisheries alters evolutionary …