Discarding is a common practice in fisheries. Total discards are estimated to be about 30
million tons, representing around 23% of worldwide catches. Discarding is an undesirable …

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 …

In contrast to the vast majority of European maritime territories, the Azores is an isolated
oceanic archipelago in the North East Atlantic characterised by small-scale hooks-and-lines …

Discarding non‐target fish from commercial fisheries is controversial and has been a
persistent concern for fisheries managers globally. Discard management strategies typically …

In many countries, policies regarding reduction of unwanted catch and discards are crafted
in response to concerns regarding accountability, conservation, and waste as well as …

Abstract The European Union (EU) discard ban, called the landing obligation (LO), was
initiated in 2015 to reduce unwanted catches by EU fisheries. To ease the transition to a …

This scoping review examines environmental impacts related to food production and
consumption in Nordic and Baltic countries. The overarching advice to all Nordic and Baltic …

The introduction of the Landing Obligation in Europe has increased the need for fishers to
adopt more selective fishing practices, to avoid unwanted catches that would previously …

Monitoring live and dead discarded catch contributes to effective fisheries management and
ecological and socioeconomic sustainability. We determined contemporary rates and levels …

As one of the principal forms of output controls, implementation of a Total Allowable Catch
(TAC) system has been increasingly emphasized in China's contemporary fisheries …