Fishery management methods comprise the suite of scientific, regulatory, and operational tools used to maintain fish populations and associated ecosystems at or near defined biological and socioeconomic reference points. They include stock assessment methodologies (e.g., age-structured or surplus-production models), harvest control rules, effort and catch limitations (quotas, size limits, gear restrictions), spatial and temporal closures, rights-based systems (ITQs, TURFs), and ecosystem-based approaches that integrate multispecies interactions and environmental variability. These methods rely on monitoring programs, statistical modeling, and adaptive management frameworks to adjust exploitation rates in response to observed stock status, uncertainty, and management objectives such as maximum sustainable yield or precautionary conservation targets.
The regulatory bodies charged with managing and conserving fisheries across two-thirds of the world's oceans are threatening marine ecosystems by significantly underperforming, according to an analysis published in Environmental ...
Ecology
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A pair of recent papers, led by biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and published in Fisheries Research and Marine and Coastal Fisheries, sought to comprehensively pinpoint which catch-and-release fishing ...
Ecology
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In June 2024, the Canadian government lifted the moratorium on northern cod fishing in Newfoundland and Labrador after 32 years. The decision was controversial because cod numbers had not recovered since they collapsed in ...
Ecology
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During the annual salmon run last fall, University of Washington researchers pulled salmon DNA out of thin air and used it to estimate the number of fish that passed through the adjacent river. Aden Yincheong Ip, a UW research ...
Ecology
Nov 26, 2025
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A paper published in Biology Methods and Protocols, finds that it is now possible to distinguish wild from farmed salmon using deep learning, potentially greatly improving strategies for environmental protection. The paper ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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The ocean has long been treated as boundless—a frontier for extraction and a sink for waste. This perception has driven decades of exploitation and neglect, pushing marine systems toward irreversible decline. Yet with urgent, ...
Environment
Nov 19, 2025
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As global marine biodiversity faces increasing threats from climate change, pollution, and overfishing, understanding the complex dynamics of ocean ecosystems is more urgent than ever. The Asia-Pacific region (APR) is home ...
Ecology
Nov 5, 2025
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Most sharks in UK waters survive catch-and-release fishing when angling best practices are followed, according to a new study published in ICES Journal of Marine Science (2025).
Plants & Animals
Nov 3, 2025
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A new study led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) finds that artificial intelligence (AI) models are providing more accurate and more hopeful predictions for the future of coral reefs amid climate change. Findings ...
Ecology
Oct 22, 2025
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Understanding people's attitudes to interactions with sharks could help halt the global decline of shark numbers, according to new research carried out on Ascension Island.
Plants & Animals
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