Introduction Worldwide coastal fish resources face severe threats from fisheries
overexploitation. However, the evaluation of abundance trends in most coastal fisheries is …

Abstract Skates (Rajiformes: Rajidae) are commercially and ecologically-important
elasmobranchs captured in targeted and mixed fisheries globally. Many species are of …

A 2019 photograph of a blue skate Dipturus batis caught in Welsh waters is the first species‐
specific evidence of the “common skate” complex occurring in its former range in the main …

This report is intended to summarise the current trends in Ireland's ocean climate. Use has
been made of archived marine data held by a range of organisations to elucidate some of …

Fish are a key component of marine ecosystems contributing to food webs as both
consumers and prey items. As such they interact closely with their biological, physical and …

For many marine ecosystems, climate change and fishing represent the two greatest
pressures (Halpern et al., 2015). Climate change has numerous effects on ecosystems. The …