Webpages tagged with «Fish»

Mass mortality events are on the rise globally. However, we have a limited understanding of the population consequences of such events that particularly affect the early life of fish. To increase our understanding of the population-level effects of mass mortality in early life, we constructed population models for 40 fish species and ran scenarios on mass mortality for these species. Our approach allows for predictions of potential effects of mass mortality in a range of fish.

Conventional fishing management by governmental regulation often oversimplifies the complex interplay of power relationships between fishers and other stakeholders. In a recent study published in Ecology and Society (Kininmonth et al. 2017), we looked how the fishing-traders relationships may affect fishing patterns in light of market or ecological changes.

Understanding the drivers that determine the productivity of marine ecosystems is an important issue. Climate and exploitation interact in their effects, such that climate alterations may cause failure in a fishery management scheme while fisheries may disrupt the ability of a population to withstand, or adjust to, climate changes.