The spatial niche has garnered significant attention in ecological research, particularly regarding species distribution patterns. The East China Sea, known for its favorable natural conditions and abundant fishery resources, exhibits diverse spatial...
The Davao Gulf supports various livelihoods and activities for small-scale and commercial fisheries. However, facing a declining catch, a closed season was implemented to arrest the decline. This study aimed to describe the Davao Gulf fisheries, dete...
In June 2020, China unilaterally announced two seasonal closures on squid fishing in certain areas of the high seas that apply to the Chinese distant water fishing fleets. Such closure refers to the withdrawal of the Chinese distant water fishing fle...
Assessing fishery resources is crucial for sustainable marine ecosystem management and the operation of fisheries. This study integrates trawl surveys, environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis, and scientific echo sounder techniques to analyze the fishery r...
Global fishery resources are under increasing pressure from environmental change and institutional constraints. China’s seasonal fishing moratorium has contributed to resource recovery but has also created income and employment challenges for s...
The fish species undergo diel and seasonal changes in coastal (littoral) ocean zones. Many factors affect these seasonal and diel patterns, thus it is difficult to determine which are the most important. Concerning the Adriatic Sea, studies on the te...
The impact of otter trawling on the relationship between functional traits of benthic invertebrates and specific biogeochemical processes were investigated in the oligotrophic Cretan Sea. The fishery is managed through a seasonal closure during the s...
The Mauritanian–Senegalese Coastal Upwelling exhibits strong interannual variability, which has been found to be driven by El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). In addition, ENSO has been shown to be triggered by the Indian Ocean and Atla...
The golden cuttlefish (Sepia esculenta) is an important cephalopod species with a lifespan of approximately one year. The species plays a crucial role in marine ecological support services and is commercially valuable in fisheries. In the seas around...
Understanding the seasonal dynamics of the fisheries and crustacean communities are of crucial ecological significance. To investigate the structural characteristics of these communities and their seasonal dynamics in the offshore of the Zhoushan Arc...
Deep-sea trawling in the Mediterranean Sea, while economically significant, has profound ecological implications due to high discard rates and the practice’s impact on deep-sea biodiversity. This study examines the composition of discards and b...
This paper proposes a novel fishery management model that integrates three critical ecological factors: the prey (fish) fear effect, impulsive nonlinear harvesting, and predator seasonal migration. It is demonstrated that all solutions of the propose...
In this study, we analyzed the fish species composition data of coastal capture fisheries in Taiwan between 1963 and 2010. The purpose of the analysis was to understand the long-term changes in marine ecosystems. A ratio-to-moving average method was...
A new gillnet made from multiple mesh sizes ranging from 125 to 180 mm of stretched mesh (experimental gillnet) was tested under commercial fishing conditions to compare the fishing performance with that of conventional gillnets with a 125 mm mesh op...
Seabob shrimp Xiphopenaeus kroyeri is under heavy capture-pressure in the western Atlantic, requiring periods of fishing suspension to protect the propagation of the species in the wild. This work aims to describe the stages of gonadal development an...
Accurate estimation of fish stock abundance and exploitability is critical for effective fishery management; however, fishery-dependent data are often affected by temporal and spatial heterogeneities due to the seasonal migration of fish, posing chal...
Overfishing and climate change have led to the depletion of fishery resources in the offshore South China Sea. The purpleback flying squid (Sthenoteuthis oualaniensis) has emerged as a promising alternative due to its ecological and economic value. H...
Non-fed aquaculture is an important contributor to low environmental impact protein production. However, knowledge of spatiotemporal patterns of the fish community in non-fed fishery systems remains limited, despite their ecological importance for su...
Small-scale fisheries (SSF) make a critical contribution in terms of employment and food security to coastal communities. Fish serves multiple purposes, mainly as a cheap source of protein and minerals for lower-income families. In order to help sust...
The choice of spatial and temporal scales affects the performance of fisheries models and is particularly important in exploring the relationship between resource abundance and the marine environment. Traditional fishery models are constructed at a p...
Tuna fisheries are the most valuable fisheries in the world, with an estimated market value of at least US$42 billion in 2018. Indonesia plays an important role in the global tuna fisheries and has committed to improve its fisheries management; there...
Small-scale fisheries constitute an important component of coastal human societies. The present study describes the small-scale net fisheries on Kalymnos Island (south-east Aegean Sea) that harbors the largest small-scale fleet in the eastern Mediter...
For successful economic management of cephalopod fisheries, short-lived squid with a 1-year life span require stock assessment over a short timescale, accompanied by both in-season and real-time stock management. However, insufficient information is...
Jellyfish are often described as a nuisance species, but as our understanding shifts to more ecosystem-based conceptions, they are also recognized as both important components of marine ecosystems and a resource for humans. Here, we describe global j...
In the past few years, environmental DNA (eDNA) techniques have been used to monitor marine communities. Research indicates that eDNA is an effective tool for monitoring fishery resources. This study analyzed the seasonal variations in fish resources...
Mixed fisheries refer to fishing activities that catch more than one species simultaneously, and a species may be fished using different gear. A trawl fishery shares these features to exploit multiple species simultaneously, with diverse fishing gear...
Small-scale tropical fisheries are complex systems that utilize multiple fishing gears to target various species. In this study, we investigated small-scale reef and demersal fisheries in Saleh Bay, Indonesia, using catch and effort data from 2016 to...
Elasmobranch species are susceptible to anthropogenic stressors such as fishing activities, particularly the bycatch in bottom-trawl fisheries. Understanding the diversity, segregation, and population structure of species at risk of capture is critic...
The South China Sea (SCS) is an important region of fishery resources. However, its fishery resources have been threatened, mainly because of overfishing. In this study, we explored the distribution of night-time fishing boats and analyzed the relati...
Queen triggerfish Balistes vetula is an important reef-associated species for commercial fisheries in the U.S. Caribbean. It exhibits a relatively unique reproductive strategy as a nesting benthic spawner, investing substantial energy in territorial...
In recent years, environmental DNA (eDNA) technology has gradually improved, and it has been increasingly used to monitor marine fish. The decline and seasonal fluctuations of fish resources in Laizhou Bay, Bohai were studied using eDNA technology an...
Black sea bream, Acanthopagrus schlegelii, is among the most commercially valuable species in the coastal fishery industry and marine ecosystems. Catch data comprising capture locations for the gillnet fisheries, remotely sensed environmental data (i...
Monitoring changes in fishery resources, such as the density and growth of fish, following large-scale fish stocking in a reservoir is important. In this study, BioSonics DT-X (201 kHz) was used to assess the seasonal changes in the density, size dis...
The population biology of the deep-sea shrimp Aristeus antennatus, as with other exploited demersal species, is usually studied using data from fishery statistics. Such statistical analyses have shown female-biased sex ratios during the spawning seas...
This study provides the first socio-ecological overview of the Seriola dumerili fishery occurring in the Balearic Islands. This pelagic top-predator is among the five most valued fish resources of the Balearic community. Despite its ecological import...
Small-scale fisheries (SSFs) in the Mediterranean and Black seas play a significant social and economic role, representing 84% of the fishing fleet (70,000 vessels), 26% of total revenue (USD 633 million) and 60% of total employment (150,000 people),...
The relationships between environmental factors and fish density are closely related, and species distribution models (SDMs) have been widely used in exploring these relationships and predicting the spatial distribution of fishery resources. When exp...
The crab fishery of the genus Callinectes is one of the most important fisheries in Mexico. Sonora and Sinaloa are the states on the eastern coast of the Gulf of California, the mainland coast. Sinaloa encompasses the greatest production in Mexico of...
Living marine resources are limited; therefore, utilizing them sustainably is essential. Not all resources obtained from the sea are used adequately, causing discards, on-board waste, and by-products and waste on land. Recognition of the limited mari...
It has been suggested that tourism fisheries can raise the value of landed catch, provide alternative livelihoods for local artisanal fishers and, because recreationally caught fishes are often released, simultaneously conserve stocks. However, for f...
Fisheries in Cuitzeo, the second largest Mexican lake, used to take place on the permanent freshwater East and Central Basins as opposed to the temporal, saline, and initially thought barren West Basin. The 1980 fisheries collapse forced fishers to l...
The Mugilidae family comprises several euryhaline species of significant ecological and economic value in global fisheries and aquaculture. Despite close taxonomic relationships, Chelon auratus, Chelon ramada and Mugil cephalus differ notably in phys...
The southern red snapper, Lutjanus purpureus, is one of the primary fishery resources of the Amazon continental shelf. Due to the demand for specimens of less than 900 g in weight, increased fishing effort focusing on this size class has led to a dra...
Alaska’s salmon fisheries are one of the more intensely managed natural resources in the world. The state’s salmon fisheries support recreational, subsistence, and commercial harvest with multiple billions of dollars flowing into the econ...
This study utilizes satellite data, including HY-1C/D, along with reanalysis data, to unveil the typical environmental characteristics of the sea surface in the middle of Zhoushan fishery. The article addresses three main issues. The first one is the...
The South China Sea (SCS) is one of the most important fishery resource bases in the world. Marine fisheries, as a crucial component of regional food security and national revenue, raise wide concern about marine ecology, social-economic and politica...
The estuarine area of Luanhe River is an important fisheries ground in China’s Bohai Sea. In 2016, Tangshan Marine Ranching Co., Ltd. constructed a 2 km2 artificial oyster–macroalgae reef area by placing artificial reefs on the seabed adj...
In real fisheries management practices, ecological information on the seasonal distribution patterns and characteristics of marine economic fauna and responses to climate change is necessary. In this study, we analyzed data obtained from surveys cond...
Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing is a major concern in fisheries management around the world. Several measures have been taken to address the problem. In Lake Victoria, the alleviation of IUU fishing is implemented through the Regio...
The Community Fish Refuge (CFR) is a fish conservation measure that is intended to improve the productivity of rice field fisheries and provide safe refuges for fish during the dry season. Cambodia’s Fisheries Administration aims to develop one...
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