Fisheries bycatch is the greatest current source of human-caused deaths of marine
mammals worldwide, with severe impacts on the health and viability of many populations …

Since the beginning of the 21st century, electronic monitoring (EM) has emerged as a cost‐
efficient supplement to existing catch monitoring programmes in fisheries. An EM system …

This report provides a review of our knowledge of the bycatches, defined as discarded dead,
from the tropical tuna purse seine fisheries of the world. The major fishing grounds involved …

Monitoring and understanding the behavior of fishing vessels are important in facilitating
effective management, preventing illegal fishing, informing fishing grounds and evaluating …

Some fishery characteristics such as total discards are often inferred from data collected by
at-sea observers on a subset of fishing trips. Such inference is predicated on the assumption …

Understanding the factors affecting the likelihood that discarded fish will die can contribute
to better management of resources by enhancing the potential for successful live release …

To reduce the practice of discarding commercially fished organisms, several measures such
as a discard ban and extra allowances on top of landings quotas (“catch quota”) have been …

Environmental DNA (eDNA), genetic material recovered from an environmental medium
such as soil, water, or feces, reflects the membership of the ecological community present in …

Obtaining a representative estimate of discard mortality for population and ecosystem
assessments is very challenging. This can only rarely be done directly by recovering tagged …

Abstract The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) reform sets out a move to a land‐all catch
policy in European Union waters with a requirement for full reporting of fishing and on‐board …