Whelk (Buccinum undatum L.) stocks around the Island of Jersey, Channel Islands: Reassessment and implications for sustainable management

Statoliths of the whelk Buccinum undatum: a novel age determination tool

“…In many studies, these stocklets have been observed to show clear genetic and morphometric differences (e.g. Weetman et al 2006, Shelmerdine et al 2007, Magnúsdóttir 2010 including size at maturity, which can also differ markedly between sites (Haig et al 2015, McIntyre et al 2015, Shrives et al 2015.…”

“…A large proportion of the whelk landings in the UK and Ireland supply an export market to East Asia that has grown steadily since the mid-1990s (Fahy et al 2000) in response to recent increases in consumer demand which has driven the expansion of the fishery. However, declines in the number of whelks caught have been noted across European waters (Jersey, Shrives et al 2015;Ireland, Fahy et al 2005;North Sea/ Netherlands, Ten Hallers-Tjabbes et al 1996) and has caused several local Inshore Fishery and Conservation Authorities (IFCA) to implement restrictions recently on pot and/or catch limits and the number of ABSTRACT: Sustainability within the fisheries of the commercially important European whelk Buccinum undatum has become a major concern because of over-exploitation and increased landings in many European coastal shelf seas due to the expansion of export markets to East Asian countries. Current management of B. undatum populations is difficult to achieve as several life history traits are problematic to accurately monitor.…”

Effect of temperature on the growth of the commercially fished common whelk (Buccinum undatum, L.): A regional analysis within the Irish Sea

“…Fisheries management responses to apparent whelk population declines have therefore been precautionary in approach when compared to management decisions for other commercially important species (Fahy et al, 2000;Fahy et al, 2005;Shrives et al, 2015).…”

Age and growth rate estimations of the commercially fished gastropod Buccinum undatum

“…This fishery has grown drastically since the early 1990s when an increase in export markets saw a rise in both landings and prices (Fahy et al, 2005). Concerns are growing over the sustainability of whelk populations in certain areas as there were reports on collapses of some fished populations (Jersey - Shrives et al, 2015;Ireland -Fahy et al, 2005;North Sea/Netherlands -Ten Hallers-Tjabbes et al, 1996) although it has not been confirmed that these declines are necessarily fishery induced (Ten Hallers-Tjabbes et al, 1996). This has prompted an increase in research concerning B. undatum in recent years covering important topics such regional variation in size at maturity and maturity assessment (Haig et al, 2015;McIntyre et al, 2015;Borsetti et al, 2018;Emmerson et al, 2018); fishery based assessments of catches and population structures (Shrives et al, 2015;Woods & Jonasson, 2017;Emmerson et al, 2018); population genetics (Pálsson et al, 2014); mortality estimations (Laptikhovsky et al, 2016) and age determination (Hollyman et al, 2018a(Hollyman et al, & 2017.…”