Rebuilding marine life

CM Duarte, S Agusti, E Barbier, GL Britten, JC Castilla… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Sustainable Development Goal 14 of the United Nations aims to “conserve and
sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development” …

Overhauling ocean spatial planning to improve marine megafauna conservation

AMM Sequeira, GC Hays, DW Sims… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Tracking data have led to evidence-based conservation of marine megafauna, but a
disconnect remains between the many 1000s of individual animals that have been tracked …

Global spatial risk assessment of sharks under the footprint of fisheries

N Queiroz, NE Humphries, A Couto, M Vedor… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Effective ocean management and the conservation of highly migratory species depend on
resolving the overlap between animal movements and distributions, and fishing effort …

Gravity of human impacts mediates coral reef conservation gains

JE Cinner, E Maire, C Huchery… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Coral reefs provide ecosystem goods and services for millions of people in the tropics, but
reef conditions are declining worldwide. Effective solutions to the crisis facing coral reefs …

Small‐scale fisheries and local food systems: Transformations, threats and opportunities

RI Arthur, DJ Skerritt, A Schuhbauer… - Fish and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fish from marine and inland capture fisheries is an important food that contributes
significantly to diets and health, but their contribution is somewhat overlooked in food …

Mismatches in scale between highly mobile marine megafauna and marine protected areas

MG Conners, NB Sisson, PD Agamboue… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Marine protected areas (MPAs), particularly large MPAs, are increasing in number and size
around the globe in part to facilitate the conservation of marine megafauna under the …

Marine protected areas, marine heatwaves, and the resilience of nearshore fish communities

SL Ziegler, JM Johnson, RO Brooks, EM Johnston… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Anthropogenic stressors from climate change can affect individual species, community
structure, and ecosystem function. Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are intense thermal …

Small-scale fisheries catch more threatened elasmobranchs inside partially protected areas than in unprotected areas

M Di Lorenzo, A Calò, A Di Franco, G Milisenda… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Elasmobranchs are heavily impacted by fishing. Catch statistics are grossly underestimated
due to missing data from various fishery sectors such as small-scale fisheries. Marine …

Data-driven approach for highlighting priority areas for protection in marine areas beyond national jurisdiction

ME Visalli, BD Best, RB Cabral, WWL Cheung… - Marine Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
One of the aims of the United Nations (UN) negotiations on the conservation and
sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) is to …

China's little-known efforts to protect its marine ecosystems safeguard some habitats but omit others

JJ Bohorquez, G Xue, T Frankstone, MM Grima… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
China's stature as the world's major producer and consumer of seafood is legendary, but its
long-standing tradition of protecting marine life domestically is virtually unknown. We …