Progress with stock recovery plans to date for depleted marine resources is reviewed, based
on published and publicly available sources. Most plans began within the last two decades …

Fisheries bycatch threatens populations of marine megafauna such as marine mammals,
turtles, seabirds, sharks and rays, but fisheries impacts on non-target populations are often …

The potential influence of climate change on the future distribution and abundance of fish
(and therefore commercial fisheries and food security) is increasingly recognized in the …

The precautionary approach to fisheries management advocates for risk‐averse
management strategies that include biological reference points and account for scientific …

The management of marine fisheries needs to undergo dramatic change in the new
millennium, in response to the well–documented evidence of global overfishing and the …

The state-space model framework provides a natural, probabilistic approach to stock
assessment by modeling the stochastic nature of population survival and recruitment …

The use of indicators in management of invertebrate resources is placed in the context
provided by more extensive applications in finfish fisheries. Indicators proposed for the …

Quantifying scientific uncertainty when setting total allowable catch limits for fish stocks is a
major challenge, but it is a requirement in the United States since changes to national …

We used time series of biomass and catches for the major commercial groundfish stocks in
the Eastern Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands region and in the Gulf of Alaska to compute annual …

Fisheries policy inherently relies on an explicit definition of management boundaries that
delineate the spatial extent over which stocks are assessed and regulations are …