Sharks and rays make up 96% of the class Chondrichthyes. They are among the most
endangered of any taxa, threatened through habitat loss, overfishing and hunting for shark …

Qualitative risk assessment frameworks, such as the Productivity Susceptibility Analysis
(PSA), have been developed to rapidly evaluate the risks of fishing to marine populations …

Researchers worldwide are studying the environmental distribution and impacts of
manufactured or environmentally fragmented small pieces of plastics, so called …

Coastal areas of Cuba harbor rich biodiversity that provide a variety of important ecosystem
services, including fisheries production. High-value invertebrate fisheries in Cuba are …

Introduction: Previous studies in adolescents were not adequately powered to accurately
disentangle genetic and environmental influences on smoking initiation (SI) across …

Abstract In 1986, New Zealand introduced a radical new quota management system (QMS)
based on individual transferable quotas (ITQ) for most of its key fisheries. New Zealand's …

Management of the marine aquarium fishery in Kenya and most of the Western Indian
Ocean (WIO) region is challenged by a poor understanding of the status and impacts of the …

This study was undertaken to address the increasing need for a strategic approach to
industry–science data collections in the face of reducing resources and growing need for …

Skates and rays represent one of the most vulnerable components of fish communities in
temperate demersal fisheries such as the Irish Sea. They also tend to be data poor in …

Abstract Objective The Gulf of Mexico (GOM) reef bottom longline fishery typically not only
targets groupers and snappers but also interacts with 27 species of sharks, which are …