Special Issue "Sustainable Marine Fisheries Management"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability, Biodiversity and Conservation".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Jose Carlos Báez
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Guest Editor
Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Fuengirola, Corazón de María, 28002 Madrid, Spain
Interests: bycatch; climate variability; ecosystem approach; fisheries management

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Marine fisheries provide animal proteins, which are an important part of world food security, especially for many developing countries. Moreover, fishing activity is an important economic sector for coastal countries worldwide. Nevertheless, there are factors that threaten the sustainability of fisheries over the long term, among them overfishing, depletion to the marine ecosystem, and climate change. In this context, recent studies suggest that many fish stocks are overfished in countries with a lack of fishery data and limited fishery management. Therefore, deepening the knowledge of fishery science and management tools is essential to ensure the sustainability of fisheries worldwide. Moreover, mitigating the damages of marine exploitation is crucial to maintain the resilience of marine ecosystems. In this sense, it is particularly important to developi a methodology to reduce bycatch and favor the post-release survival of the most sensitive species. In addition, local abundance of some species and their catchability could respond in the short and long term to climate variability. Thus, understanding the response patterns of exploited stocks to this variability is a necessary challenge to achieve sustainable management of fisheries in a changing world.

This Special Issue is focused on research, case studies, methodology improvement, and reviews that examine the issues of:

- Bycatch;

- Discards;

- Ecosystem approach;

- Effect of the climate variability in fisheries;

- Fishery economy;

- Fisheries management;

- Fishing gears improvement and fisheries technology;

- Industrial fisheries;

- Marine policy;

- Marine protected areas;

- Small-scale fisheries;

- Stock assessment.

Dr. Jose Carlos Báez
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

  • bycatch
  • climate variability
  • ecosystem approach
  • fisheries management
  • marine protected areas
  • stock assessment

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.
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