Correction: Corrigendum: Coherent assessments of Europe's marine fishes show regional divergence and megafauna loss

Fernandes, Paul G.; Ralph, Gina M.; Nieto, Ana; Criado, Mariana García; Vasilakopoulos, Paraskevas; Maravelias, Christos D.; Cook, Robin; Pollom, R.; Kovačić, Marcelo; Pollard, D.; Farrell, Edward D.; Florin, Ann‐Britt; Polidoro, Beth; Lawson, Julia M.; Lorance, Pascal; Uiblein, Franz; Craig, Matthew T.; Allen, David J.; Fowler, Sarah; Walls, Rachel H. L.; Comeros-Raynal, Mia T.; Harvey, Michael S.; Dureuil, Manuel; Biscoito, Manuel; Pollock, Caroline M.; Phillips, Sophy R. McCully; Ellis, Jim R.; Papaconstantinou, C.; Soldo, Alen; Keskin, Çetin; Knudsen, Steen Wilhelm; Sola, Luís Gil de; Serena, Fabrizio; Collette, Bruce B.; Nedreaas, Kjell Harald; Stump, Emilie; Russell, Barry C.; García, Silvia; Afonso, Pedro; Jung, Armelle; Álvarez, Helena; Delgado, J. M. P. Q.; Dulvy, Nicholas K.; Carpenter, Kent E.

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“…An example of this is where scientists from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) advise the Oslo Paris Commission (OSPAR), the Helsinki Commission, the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM), the North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC), the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization (NASCO) and the European Commission (EC) [58]. Yet, despite all of these channels, the decisions have still been largely political, leading to overfishing within the European Union [59][60][61][62]. More recently, there have been significant efforts to reverse this, though it has only been patchily effective; the Mediterranean, in particular, still has a majority of its stocks in an overfished state [63].…”

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How to Sustain Fisheries: Expert Knowledge from 34 Nations

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Fulton

Johnson

et al. 2019

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Ensuring productive and sustainable fisheries involves understanding the complex interactions between biology, environment, politics, management and governance. Fisheries are faced with a range of challenges, and without robust and careful management in place, levels of anthropogenic disturbance on ecosystems and fisheries are likely to have a continuous negative impact on biodiversity and fish stocks worldwide. Fisheries management agencies, therefore, need to be both efficient and effective in working towards long-term sustainable ecosystems and fisheries, while also being resilient to political and socioeconomic pressures. Marine governance, i.e., the processes of developing and implementing decisions over fisheries, often has to account for socioeconomic issues (such as unemployment and business developments) when they attract political attention and resources. This paper addresses the challenges of (1) identifying the main issues in attempting to ensure the sustainability of fisheries, and (2) how to bridge the gap between scientific knowledge and governance of marine systems. Utilising data gained from a survey of marine experts from 34 nations, we found that the main challenges perceived by fisheries experts were overfishing, habitat destruction, climate change and a lack of political will. Measures suggested to address these challenges did not demand any radical change, but included extant approaches, including ecosystem-based fisheries management with particular attention to closures, gear restrictions, use of individual transferable quotas (ITQs) and improved compliance, monitoring and control.

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How to Sustain Fisheries: Expert Knowledge from 34 Nations

Nilsson

Fulton

Johnson

et al. 2019

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“…On this context, several Mediterranean commercial marine species, including the European hake (Merluccius merluccius), present seasonality on their spatial distribution (Demestre and Sánchez, 1998;Paradinas et al, 2015;Sion et al, 2019;Lloret-Lloret et al, under review). European hake is one of the most important demersal target species for commercial fisheries in the Mediterranean basin (Sánchez et al, 2007), but it is reaching overexploitation levels in numerous areas (Lleonart and Maynou, 2003;Fernandes et al, 2017) to the point that it is currently listed as Vulnerable species by the International Union for the Conservation of the Nature (IUCN) (Di Natale et al, 2011). Therefore, achieving a better understanding of spatial patterns of European hake and how they relate to seasonal processes could be of use to inform ecosystem-based management actions that result on more sustainable fisheries.…”

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The Seasonal Distribution of a Highly Commercial Fish Is Related to Ontogenetic Changes in Its Feeding Strategy

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Improving the knowledge on the biology, ecology and distribution of marine resources exploited by fisheries is necessary to achieve population recovery and sustainable fisheries management. European hake (Merluccius merluccius) is one of the most important target species in the Mediterranean Sea and is largely overexploited by industrial fisheries. Here, we used two methodological approaches to further investigate the seasonal variation in the spatial distribution of European hake considering ontogenetic changes and trophic ecology in the western Mediterranean Sea. Our main aim was to explore if spatial changes in hake distribution were related to trophic behavior, in addition to key environmental factors. We employed a hierarchical Bayesian species distribution modeling approach (B-SDM), using spatial data from two oceanographic surveys conducted during winter and summer. We analyzed how the environmental variables, together with abundance and mean weight distribution of the main preys identified for European hake, affected the seasonal distribution of the species. Results revealed clear differences in the distribution of the European hake between seasons, which were indeed partially correlated to the distribution of their main preys, in addition to the environment. Stable isotope values and Bayesian isotopic mixing models (MixSIAR) revealed substantial seasonal and ontogenetic differences in trophic habits of European hake, partly matching the spatial distribution results. These findings could have implications for a future seasonal-based adaptive fisheries management, as local depletion of prey, or variation in size and condition may affect European hake presence in this area. Moreover, this study illustrates how the sequential application of methodologies provides a more holistic understanding of species seasonality, which is essential to understand the phenological processes of exploited species and their potential shifts due to environmental changes.

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“…Many additional assessments of marine shes have resulted from regional initiatives, further broadening the taxonomic coverage of the Red List 8 . These include nearly all nearshore and many deep sea marine shes from the Mediterranean 39 , Eastern Central Paci c 40 , Western Central Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico 41,42 , Oceania 43 , European waters 44 , Eastern Central Atlantic 45 , and Persian Gulf 46 .…”

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Monitoring Extinction Risk and Threats of the World’s Fishes based on the Sampled Red List Index

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Miqueleiz²,

Darwall³

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Global biodiversity targets require us to identify species at risk of extinction and quantify status and trends of biodiversity. The Red List Index (RLI) tracks trends in the conservation status of entire species groups over time by monitoring changes in categories assigned to species. Here, we calculate this index for the world’s fishes in 2010, using a sampled approach to the RLI based on a randomly selected sample of 1,500 species, and also present RLI splits for freshwater and marine systems separately. We further compare specific traits of a worldwide fish list to our sample to assess its representativeness. Overall, 15.1% of species in the sample were estimated to be threatened with extinction, resulting in an sampled RLI of 0.914 for all species, 0.972 in marine and 0.860 in freshwater ecosystems. Our sample showed fishing as the principal threat for marine species, and pollution by agricultural and foresty effluents for freshwater fishes. The sampled list provides a robust representation for tracking trends in the conservation status of the world’s fishes, including disaggregated sampled indices for marine and freshwater fish. Reassessment and backcasting of this index is urgent to check the achievement of the commitments proposed in global biodiversity targets.

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Correction: Corrigendum: Coherent assessments of Europe's marine fishes show regional divergence and megafauna loss

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How to Sustain Fisheries: Expert Knowledge from 34 Nations

How to Sustain Fisheries: Expert Knowledge from 34 Nations

The Seasonal Distribution of a Highly Commercial Fish Is Related to Ontogenetic Changes in Its Feeding Strategy

Monitoring Extinction Risk and Threats of the World’s Fishes based on the Sampled Red List Index

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