A dynamic ocean management tool to reduce bycatch and support sustainable fisheries.

ABSTRACT: Seafood is an essential source of protein for more than 3 billion people worldwide, yet bycatch of threatened species in capture fisheries remains a major impediment to fisheries sustainability. Management measures designed to reduce bycatch often result in significant economic losses and even fisheries closures. Static spatial management approaches can also be rendered ineffective by environmental variability and climate change, as productive habitats shift and introduce new interactions between human activities and protected species. We introduce a new multispecies and dynamic approach that uses daily satellite data to track ocean features and aligns scales of management, species movement, and fisheries. To accomplish this, we create species distribution models for one target species and

SUBMITTER: Hazen EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5976278 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature