{"title":"Correction to Tracking Aquatic Animals for Fisheries Management in European Waters","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/fme.12789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fme.12789","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Özgül, A., Birnie-Gauvin, K., Abecasis, D., Alós, J., Aarestrup, K., Reubens, J. et al. (2024) Tracking aquatic animals for fisheries management in European waters. <i>Fisheries Management and Ecology</i>, 31, e12706. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/fme.12706</p><p>In the originally published article, the second affiliation of the author Robert Arlinghaus was omitted. The author's correct affiliation is below:</p><p>Robert Arlinghaus<sup>14,15</sup></p><p><sup>14</sup>Albrecht Daniel Thaer Institute, Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany</p><p><sup>15</sup>Department of Fish Biology, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany</p><p>We apologize for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":50444,"journal":{"name":"Fisheries Management and Ecology","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/fme.12789","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143114945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of Resources and Equipment to Promote Best Practices for the Humane Dispatch of Sharks in a Commercial Fishery","authors":"B. K. Diggles","doi":"10.1111/fme.12790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fme.12790","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study aimed to identify best-practice methods and equipment for humane dispatch of 15 species of sharks commonly captured by commercial fishers in the Northern Territory (NT), Australia. Anatomical brain location was determined for each species using dissection, external photographs and radiographs (see www.ikijime.com website and Ikijime Tool phone apps). Eight dispatch methods were qualitatively evaluated for their effectiveness on sharks of various sizes. Electrical stunning equipment could not be used because it failed to meet Australian electrical safety standards. Field trials of 206 dispatch events found that penetrating captive bolt tools were most effective on medium-sized (120–210 cm) and large sharks (210–360 cm long), with mean total dispatch scores (MTDS) that ranged from 4.6 to 4.84 out of 5 and instantaneous death rate (IDR) that ranged from 88.57% to 95.45% (<i>n</i> = 79), while ikijime was most effective on small sharks (< 120 cm long), with an MTDS of 4.69 and IDR of 93.75% (<i>n</i> = 16). In contrast, percussive stunning (MTDS = 3.95, IDR = 80.95%, <i>n</i> = 42), shooting with a 12-gauge shotgun (MTDS = 2.92, IDR = 36.54%, <i>n</i> = 52) and spinal section (MTDS = 3, IDR = 0%, <i>n</i> = 2) were less effective, as shown by their lower IDR and MTDS scores. These preliminary findings may be useful for directing further research into best-practice dispatch methods for sharks in the NT, Australia, and elsewhere globally.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":50444,"journal":{"name":"Fisheries Management and Ecology","volume":"32 4","pages":"134-146"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144606762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Edgaras Ivanauskas, Artūras Razinkovas-Baziukas, Dalia Baziukė
{"title":"Does the Fishery or Climate Change Drive Commercial Catches in a Shallow Eutrophic Lagoon?","authors":"Edgaras Ivanauskas, Artūras Razinkovas-Baziukas, Dalia Baziukė","doi":"10.1111/fme.12792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fme.12792","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Climate change has significantly affected the Curonian Lagoon, the largest coastal lagoon in Europe, which is of great economic importance to fisheries and tourism. We modeled how environmental factors and fisheries affected recruitment and subsequent catches of pikeperch (<i>Sander lucioperca</i> L.) and common bream (<i>Abramis brama</i> L.) in the lagoon. Recruitment, catch per unit effort (CPUE), environmental variables, and fishery catch, and effort were used to construct Bayesian belief networks (BBNs) for both fish species. Catches of pikeperch and common bream depended more on fishing effort than recruitment. Environmental factors (temperature and riverine discharge) were only weakly related to catches of pikeperch and common bream. Changes in salinity and temperature are expected to have only minor direct effects on populations of pikeperch and common bream.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":50444,"journal":{"name":"Fisheries Management and Ecology","volume":"32 4","pages":"159-173"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144606458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Charles P. Madenjian, Benjamin S. Leonhardt, Patricia M. Dieter, Steven A. Farha
{"title":"Burbot Population Dynamics in Northern Lake Michigan, 2001–2023, and Predation on Newly Stocked Lake Trout by Burbot","authors":"Charles P. Madenjian, Benjamin S. Leonhardt, Patricia M. Dieter, Steven A. Farha","doi":"10.1111/fme.12787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fme.12787","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Although the worldwide status of burbot (<i>Lota lota</i>) across its Holarctic distribution has recently been assessed, adverse effects of dreissenid mussels on burbot abundance in waters invaded by mussels have not been investigated. We analyzed data from an annual spring gillnet survey to characterize burbot population dynamics in northern Lake Michigan during 2001–2023. Adult burbot abundance in northern Lake Michigan trended neither significantly upward nor downward during 2001–2023. Thus, expansion of the quagga mussel (<i>Dreissena rostriformis bugensis</i>) population into deeper waters of Lake Michigan during 2003–2008 had no detectable negative effects on burbot abundance. Burbot continued to feed on lake trout (<i>Salvelinus namaycush</i>) stocked in the Northern Refuge of Lake Michigan through 2023, which supported a hypothesis that the burbot population potentially impeded lake trout restoration in the refuge.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":50444,"journal":{"name":"Fisheries Management and Ecology","volume":"32 4","pages":"107-121"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144606459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Smith Vera-Mera, Diego Mejía, Christopher Mera, Michael Vélez-Soledispa, Jesús Briones-Mendoza, Felipe Galván-Magaña, Steven Tamayo-Vega
{"title":"Age and Growth of the Shortfin Mako Shark, Isurus oxyrinchus (Rafinesque, 1810), in the Ecuadorian Pacific Ocean","authors":"Smith Vera-Mera, Diego Mejía, Christopher Mera, Michael Vélez-Soledispa, Jesús Briones-Mendoza, Felipe Galván-Magaña, Steven Tamayo-Vega","doi":"10.1111/fme.12795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fme.12795","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The shortfin mako shark (<i>Isurus oxyrinchus</i>) is a widely distributed predatory species. However, critical aspects of its biology remain poorly understood in several regions, including the Ecuadorian Pacific Ocean, where it is one of the most commonly captured shark species. Vertebral samples of 238 specimens were analyzed, including 119 females (82–228 cm TL; 0–15 years), 115 males (76.4–248 cm TL; 0–16 years), and 4 unsexed individuals (194–215 cm TL; 10–14 years). The von Bertalanffy model provided the best fit for males (<i>L</i><sub>∞</sub> 271.31 cm TL, <i>L</i><sub>0</sub> = 75.85 cm TL, <i>k</i> = 0.10 year<sup>−1</sup>), and females (<i>L</i><sub>∞</sub> 347.53 cm TL, <i>L</i><sub>0</sub> = 76.04 cm TL, <i>k</i> = 0.06 year<sup>−1</sup>). The results indicated sexual dimorphism, with females reaching a larger size and exhibiting slower growth rates compared with males. The shortfin mako shark in the Ecuadorian Pacific Ocean grew slow, and based on its life history characteristics, is vulnerable to overexploitation, thereby necessitating harvest management to sustain a fishery.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":50444,"journal":{"name":"Fisheries Management and Ecology","volume":"32 5","pages":"203-217"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145038017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kate Seinor, Steven W. Purcell, Hamish A. Malcolm, Robert G. Creese, Stephen D. A. Smith
{"title":"Long-Term Mobility of a Harvested, Rocky-Reef Gastropod","authors":"Kate Seinor, Steven W. Purcell, Hamish A. Malcolm, Robert G. Creese, Stephen D. A. Smith","doi":"10.1111/fme.12794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fme.12794","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Stocks of <i>Turbo militaris</i> (Turbinidae) are under increasing harvesting pressure, but management is currently hampered by data deficiency. Management decisions for rocky-reef gastropod fisheries should consider long-term species mobility, yet this is often poorly understood. Therefore, mark-recapture was used to evaluate annual displacement and upshore-to-downshore movement of <i>T. militaris</i> in Eastern Australia. Tags were glued onto 676 snails, their positions georeferenced and recapture surveys were conducted after 6 and 12 months. Overall, 25% of tagged snails were recaptured. Snails moved an average of 20–21 m year<sup>−1</sup> at subtropical sites and 34–44 m year<sup>−1</sup> at temperate sites. Movement was non-directional, limited in upshore-to-downshore mixing and unrelated to animal size. <i>T. militaris</i> is neither sedentary nor site-attached, and small and large snails move similarly. Our findings suggest a limited capacity for adults to repopulate other tidal zones, thus recreational harvesting could impact intertidal snails.</p>","PeriodicalId":50444,"journal":{"name":"Fisheries Management and Ecology","volume":"32 5","pages":"189-202"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/fme.12794","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145037877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Suman Barua, Qun Liu, Xu Chen, Eman A. Abo Eleneen
{"title":"Stock and Market Status of High-Valued Blackspotted Croaker (Protonibea diacanthus) in Bangladesh","authors":"Suman Barua, Qun Liu, Xu Chen, Eman A. Abo Eleneen","doi":"10.1111/fme.12791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fme.12791","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The blackspotted croaker (<i>Protonibea diacanthus</i>) is among the highest-valued commercial marine fish species in Bangladesh. Therefore, we assessed the stock status, economic significance, and market status of blackspotted croaker in the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh. We estimated life history parameters and sustainability indicators to determine if the stock was being sustainably managed. Size of blackspotted croaker was significantly differ temporally. Blackspotted croaker increased in weight allometrically in relation to length. Length-age life history parameters were <i>L</i><sub><i>∞</i></sub> = 161.16 cm, <i>k</i> = 0.39 year<sup>−1</sup>. Natural mortality <i>M</i> was 0.39 year<sup>−1</sup> and fishing mortality <i>F</i> was 0.35 year<sup>−1</sup>. Catch composition and sustainably indicators revealed that the stock was prone to recruitment and growth overfishing. Medium to large sized blackspotted croaker (> 85 cm) fetched the highest price in commercial markets for the swim bladders that was worth many times more than the value of fillets. The highest demand of swim bladders in export commerce termed this species as <i>marine gold</i> to the fishers. Therefore, fishers were increasingly motivated to target the species. Ununiformed landing of blackspotted croaker, for domestic and international trade of swim bladder of blackspotted croaker, and poorly documented trading supply chains make this fishing industry luck-driven. Management interventions are needed to sustain the fishery and economic value.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":50444,"journal":{"name":"Fisheries Management and Ecology","volume":"32 4","pages":"147-158"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144606421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laura C. Florez, Matías Ocampo Reinaldo, Guillermo M. Svendsen, Raúl A. González, María Alejandra Romero
{"title":"Bottom-Trawling Footprint Changed as Fishery Shifted From Hake to Shrimp","authors":"Laura C. Florez, Matías Ocampo Reinaldo, Guillermo M. Svendsen, Raúl A. González, María Alejandra Romero","doi":"10.1111/fme.12793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fme.12793","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Crustacean fisheries have increased worldwide, leading to changes in fishing practices. In San Matias Gulf, Argentina, the Patagonian red shrimp replaced Argentine hake as the main target since 2012. We analyzed this shift from 2004 to 2020 using vessel monitoring systems and landings. Fishing positions were identified using the speed rule. Gravitational centers of fishing intensity were used to assess seasonal spatial changes of the fleet, and bottom-trawling footprint was used to quantify the area of the seabed affected. Landings were pooled monthly to assess multivariate changes in landing composition. Previously concentrated around a frontal system, the fleet moved northward between 2014 and 2020, while reducing hake landings but increasing shrimp landings. The total area trawled did not change significantly, but the footprint nearly doubled. Our results can be used for fishery management by increasing understanding of spatial and temporal changes in fishing strategies for policymakers.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":50444,"journal":{"name":"Fisheries Management and Ecology","volume":"32 4","pages":"174-185"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144606433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aaron J. Adams, Randall W. Parkinson, Daniel Dourte, Amy Bainbridge
{"title":"Recreational Fisher Local Ecological Knowledge Provides Information Applicable to the Management of an Anthropogenically Impacted Estuary","authors":"Aaron J. Adams, Randall W. Parkinson, Daniel Dourte, Amy Bainbridge","doi":"10.1111/fme.12788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fme.12788","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Anthropogenic impacts to estuaries are increasing globally, and often exceed the capacity of resource managers to effectively quantify environmental changes, design and implement effective restoration programs, or assess ecosystem response to specific restoration projects. We interviewed recreational fishers to document spatiotemporal fishing effort over a 40-year period, analyzed commercial fishing landings, to qualitatively compare the data to seagrass monitoring estimates of aerial coverage and percent cover over a four-decade period for the Indian River Lagoon, Florida (USA). Fisher effort and landings mirrored declines in seagrass percent cover, which preceded declines in seagrass aerial coverage resulting from large-scale, harmful algal blooms. A super-bloom was posited as the point of ecological collapse of the Indian River Lagoon. We recommend engaging stakeholders and incorporating local ecological knowledge into resource management programs to monitor and improve restoration outcomes by expanding the knowledge base from which decisions are made.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":50444,"journal":{"name":"Fisheries Management and Ecology","volume":"32 4","pages":"122-133"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144606546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Overfishing of Threatened Bycatch Species in a Marine Protected Area: The Elasmobranchs of Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania","authors":"Sidi Yahya Cheikhna Lemrabott, Anieke van Leeuwen, Guido Leurs, El-Hacen Mohamed El-Hacen, Theunis Piersma, Amadou Abdarahmane Sall, Ebaye Sidina, Lemhaba Yarba, Han Olff","doi":"10.1111/fme.12786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fme.12786","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Elasmobranch (rays and sharks) populations are vulnerable to overexploitation due to their slow growth, late maturity, and low fecundity. Industrial fishery impacts on sharks and rays are known, whereas impacts of artisanal fisheries are less understood. We quantified catches of sharks and rays in artisanal fisheries at the Parc National du Banc d'Arguin (Banc d'Arguin), Mauritania (West Africa) during 1998–2020, a period when fishing effort increased around 2006, catches increased, but catch-per-unit-effort declined substantially. Shark nets and meagre fixed gill nets were used to catch elasmobranchs, with catches comprising over 60% of elasmobranch species. Therefore, elasmobranchs were not bycatch, but rather, the target of fisheries. Of 33 elasmobranch species captured, 94% of shark species and 76% of ray species are threatened with extinction. We recommend that management approaches should focus on fishing locations with the highest occurrence of threatened elasmobranch species in catches, through new regulations on fishing gear types and discouragement of trade in elasmobranch products from Banc d'Arguin.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":50444,"journal":{"name":"Fisheries Management and Ecology","volume":"32 4","pages":"97-106"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144606597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}