With the arrival of GPS, satellite remote sensing, and personal computers, the last two
decades have witnessed rapid advances in the field of spatially-explicit marine ecological …

Time/area closures have been widely used in fisheries management to prevent overfishing
and the destruction of marine biodiversity. To a lesser degree, such spatio‐temporal …

Longline fishing kills over 160,000 seabirds annually, with bycatch in these fisheries
contributing significantly to the widespread, global decline in albatross populations. One of …

Fisheries bycatch is a recognized threat to marine megafauna. Addressing bycatch of
pelagic species however is challenging owing to the dynamic nature of marine …

International interest in the protection and sustainable use of high seas biodiversity has
grown in recent years. There is an opportunity for new technologies to enable improvements …

Aim Fisheries bycatch is a major threat to populations of protected species such as marine
mammals, seabirds and sea turtles, and static management approaches are often …

Short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) depredate pelagic longlines along
the shelf break of the Mid-Atlantic Bight. The mortality and serious injury of short-finned pilot …

A principal role of marine protected areas (MPAs) is to mitigate the decline of biodiversity. A
key part of this role is to reduce the effects of fisheries on bycatch of vulnerable species …

Albacore tuna (Thunnus alalunga) exhibit patchy concentrations associated with biological
process at a wide range of spatial scales, resulting in variations in their catchability by …

The modernization and intensification of fishing practices have raised the threat to sea
turtles, with escalating unintentional captures endangering turtles of all life stages. In this …