A paper claiming that a large portion of American-caught pollack, salmon, and crab are caught illegally was finally retracted after a year-long dispute by NOAA, industry, and outside scientists.
A paper out this week in PNAS quantified the footprint of bottom trawl fishing around the world using highly-refined data for the first time. This new data should give us a better understanding of fishing impacts and improve fishery management.
Scientists are getting closer to figuring out how much of the world’s ocean is fished, but discrepancies in the scale and interpretation of data are producing wildly different answers with contrasting conservation implications.
A recent paper documented widespread age truncation in key global fisheries on a new scale. However, skeptics of a correlation between biodiversity and fishery health will find holes in the authors’ conclusions.
Fishery scientist Tessa Mazor from CISRO Brisbane writes about her recent study looking at the sustainability of trawling in Australian waters.
Successful natural resource management is dependent on good science (to inform policy) coupled with stakeholder compliance. One without the other creates conflict, causes stress, and
A new paper in Nature quantified the ability of catch shares to reduce the race to fish in 39 US fisheries. The authors compared the
Forage fish, like anchovies and sardines, are important in reduction fisheries. According to a recent study, fishing them has little effect on forage fish predators.
In Costello et al. (2016) we showed that appropriate management reforms at the global level could lead to a bright future for fisheries, with the
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