The sustainable mitigation of human-wildlife conflicts has become a major societal and environmental challenge globally. Among these conflicts, large marine predators feeding on fisheries catches, a behaviour termed "depredation," has emerged concomitantly with the expansion of the world's fisheries. Depredation poses threats to both the socioeconomic viability of fisheries and species conservation, stressing the need for mitigation. This review synthesizes the extent and socio-ecological impacts of depredation by sharks and marine mammals across the world, and the
A combination of modelling tools was applied to simulate the impacts of the future Courseulles-sur-mer offshore wind farm construction (OWF) (Bay of Seine, English Channel) on the ecosystem structure and functioning. To do so, food-web models of the ecosystem under three scenarios were constructed to investigate the effect of added substrate (reef effect), fishing restriction (reserve effect), and their combined effect caused by the OWF. Further, Ecological Network Analysis indices and Mean Trophic Level (MTL) were derived to investigate their suitability for detecting changes in the ecosystem state. Our analyses suggest changes in the ecosystem structure and functioning after the OWF construction, the ecosystem maturity was predicted to increase, but no alterations in its overall resilience capacity.
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