We review ways to safely handle and remedy the incidental capture of sea turtles, cetaceans, seabirds, sharks, and billfish in fishing. As well as summarize the most effective measures for improving survivability of these species post incidental capture.
Participatory Modeling (PM) is becoming increasingly common in environmental planning and conservation. We provide lessons learned, based on over 200 years of the authors’ cumulative and diverse experience, about PM processes.
Coral reefs worldwide face the pressure of human pollutants. We use machine learning to conduct explanatory predictions on reef ecosystems that can help inform reef practitioners and hold promises for replication across a broad range of ecosystems.
This study develops several single- and multi-region input-output models in IMPLAN using the annual expenditure data from a 2012 survey of charter fishing operations in the state of Hawaii.
This paper examines the reliability of indicator-based analysis for predicting population status and the fishing pressure of large pelagic sharks, based on these fishery indicator trends alone.
Many coral reefs are transitioning from being dominated by corals to macroalgae. We synthesize 3,345 surveys to define reef regimes and aid in monitoring reef change and guiding ecosystem-based management of reefs.
A spatially-explicit biophysical ecosystem model evaluates socio-ecological trade-offs of land-based versus marine-based management scenarios and local-scale versus global-scale stressors and their cumulative impacts.
Little is known about the winter distribution of the critically endangered eastern population of North Pacific right whale but it has been proposed that the eastern Aleutian Islands, specifically Unimak Pass, be a possible migratory route for individuals.