#Fishsci

Rigorous validation of ecological models against empirical time series - Nature Ecology & Evolution Validating theoretical models against empirical data presents challenges. Here the authors present an assumption-light method to validate ecological models against time series data, along with a dedic...

Ecology faces an accumulation of models but not an accumulation of confidence. Our new paper w/ Jonathan Levine www.nature.com/articles/s41... in @natecoevo.nature.com introduces a rigorous test rooted in queueing theory to falsify inadequate models and build confidence in useful ones.

Just the good news we need - a nature-based solution for climate change mitigation that could be scaled up to help with carbon sequestration plus is a tasty food source - at least for those of us that like oysters #ClimateChange #CO2reduction #OysterFarming

Ecological interactions and genomic innovation fueled the evolution of ray-finned fish endothermy Cetacean interactions, body size, and genomic innovations shaped endothermy evolution in ray-finned fishes in the Eocene-Miocene.

Evolution of endothermy in marine fishes is related to competition with cetaceans. This incredible paper is a masterpiece of phylogenetic comparative methods and a future classic for marine biologists

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Scale-dependent effects of biodiversity and stability on marine ecosystem dynamics vist.ly/3n7k9f2 #Community #Ecology #Functional #Diversity

Climate Change Opens Up New Fishing Possibilities for Large‐Scale Trawling Vessels Off West Greenland Climate change is transforming marine ecosystems, opening new fishing possibilities for large-scale trawling vessels in the Arctic. This study investigates the potential for new fishing grounds to em....

Matthew Hatton's first (!) PhD paper is out, mapping the potential expansion of large-scale trawling off West #Greenland as sea ice retreats. New fishing grounds, new bottom habitats; a new challenge for ecosystem-based #fisheries management.

#EBFM #MarineScience
@mastscot.bsky.social / SUPER DTP

Turning Insight into Action: How the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment Can Drive Real Change | Transformations Community The IPBES Transformative Change Assessment offers a powerful lens for understanding—and advancing—systemic change.

🌀 How do we really shift systems?

Join Karen O’Brien, Hannah Gosnell, Julia Leventon + Bruce Goldstein as they reflect on the making of the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment 🌍

📅 Day 3 of #TCXYork
▶️ Watch this first: buff.ly/VvTy6v8

#IPBES #TransformativeChange

Marine ecosystem-based management: challenges remain, yet solutions exist, and progress is occurring - npj Ocean Sustainability npj Ocean Sustainability - Marine ecosystem-based management: challenges remain, yet solutions exist, and progress is occurring

Today is the 1 year anniversary of my favorite paper on #marine ecosystem-based management.

Here are some statistics about the performance of the paper thus far: citations 14, in the top 5% of all research tracked by #altmetric🧪🌊🦑 #EBM
Read the #openaccess paper here

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Predicting the effects of area closures and fishing effort restrictions on the production, biomass, and species richness of benthic invertebrate communities Abstract. To effectively implement an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF), managers need to consider the effects of management actions on the fishery and

Careful placement of MPAs is important because closed areas in the wrong locations can increase environmental impacts. academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

Any suggestions to help using your lessons learnt in other parts of the world?

🌊 What have we learned from a decade of collaboration with ocean keystone actors?

As UNOC3 begins today in Nice, we reflect on 10 years of collaboration through SeaBOS – a pioneering partnership between scientists and the world’s largest seafood companies.

🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/4Cc3nhH

Why throwing all potential predictors into your model and letting it decide has, and always will, be bad for inference.

Title, authors’ names, and abstract from a review paper about the contributions of social sciences and humanities research to ecosystem-based marine management in Atlantic Canada

While #ecosystem-based mgmt offers a holistic approach for environmental decisions, #social-sciences/humanities (SSH) studies are often absent. Andrews et al. reviewed Atlantic Canada literature & found missed opportunities for actionable SSH research @icesmarine.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ices...

YouTube video by CNR-IRBIM ICES/FAO WGFTFB - 20 May 2025

▶️Follow along live
The final day of ICES @fao.org Working Group on Fishing Technology and Fish Behaviour #WGFTFB annual meeting from Sicily www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWjn...

🎣You can also watch back the recording of the past few days
www.youtube.com/@cnr-irbim

Recognising and Protecting the National Benefit of Sustainable Fisheries in the UK Sustainable commercial fishing makes valuable contributions to coastal regions and broader national benefits. This paper offers three arguments in relation to what is required for the societal benefi...

This article very much reflects our own recently published research on the same topic: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Marine protected areas stage of establishment and level of protection are good predictors of their conservation outcomes Global targets should track MPA quality and quantity. This is the first study using a new science-based framework across 123 MPAs and tying levels of protection and stages of establishment directly to...

Shocking new paper shows that well-designed marine protected areas that get staffing and implementation work

(This is my shocked face)

www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Whales have big eyes, so they should have good eyesight.

But as it turns out, humpbacks have relatively few retinal ganglion cells--the photoreceptors on the back of the eye that capture light.

The result is that, from a distance, a net is hard to pick out, and harder to avoid.

A functional assessment of fish as bioturbators and their vulnerability to local extinction The seabed is one of the key ecological interfaces on the planet, exerting a major influence on global biogeochemical cycles. Biological processes suc…

Fish are important benthic bioturbators too! Great new #ConvexSeascapeSurvey paper from our @exetermarine.bsky.social PhD student Mara Fischer. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Under Trump, US retreats from global fisheries and oceans leadership This is Part 2 of a two-part series on fisheries management and oceans governance under the second Trump administration, which took office Jan. 20. Part 1 looks at the potential impacts that cuts and ...

Under Trump, US retreats from global #fisheries and oceans leadership: news.mongabay.com/2025/04/unde...

Natural and fishing disturbances combine to drive seafloor conservation outcomes from spatial closures on Georges Bank Marine reserves have emerged as a leading management response to address benthic habitat impacts from bottom-towed fishing gears; however, empirical e…

Interesting paper:

'After 17 years from the cessation of bottom fishing in marine reserves, we found subtle differences between benthic communities across adjacent open and closed areas with no consistent pattern in effects across taxa'

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MPA results in a decrease in burrowing brittle stars because of increased predation pressure by flatfish. So food web effects thus override the decrease in mortality of macrofauna caused by the cessation of trawling.

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Fisheries performance indicators for assessing the ecological sustainability of wild-caught seafood products in Europe The increasing global demand for seafood has intensified pressure on marine resources and hence the need to adopt sustainable fishing practices and pr…

A contribution to build “Fisheries performance indicators for assessing the ecological sustainability of wild-caught seafood products in Europe”

#ecocertification #fisheries #sustainability
#scoring #biodiversity #seafood #protein

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Emaciated enigma: Decline in body conditions of common dolphins in the Celtic Seas ecoregion The nutritional health of stranded common dolphins in the Celtic Seas ecoregion has recently declined, as evidenced by a decrease in nutritional status and an increase in starvation-related deaths. V...

Alarming study on dolphins in Ireland & UK shows "an increase in cases of animals dying due to starvation". Add that to record numbers of common dolphins & harbour porpoise washing up dead and it does not paint a pretty picture

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

European Commission - Have your say European Commission - Have your say

The “European Oceans Pact”: A call for evidence is now open => Have your say now! #blueeconomy #fisheries #aquaculture
*How we affect the ocean
*How the ocean affects coastal communities
*The opportunities that the ocean provides us with

ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

New 🧪paper: We show the importance of selecting several indicators, both diversity and trait-based, to capture the broader signals of change in benthic communities due to bottom trawling activities.

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Implementing the EU MSP Directive: Current status and lessons learned in 22 EU Member States This paper takes stock of the impact the Maritime Spatial Planning Directive 2014/89/EU has had on developing maritime spatial planning (MSP) practice…

"Implementing the EU MSP Directive: Current status and lessons learned in 22 EU Member States"

sometimes we need to stop and analyze the impact of policy implementation

#MarineEcology
#policy
#marinespatialplanning
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Dynamics of thermal tolerance plasticity across fish species and life stages Climate warming with associated heat waves presents a concerning challenge for ectotherms such as fishes. During heatwaves, the ability to rapidly acc…

Our new paper on fish dynamics of thermal tolerance plasticity is finally out in Journal of Thermal Biology! This was an amazing collaboration with great researchers across the World!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Limited Evidence Base for Determining Impacts (Or Not)
of Offshore Wind Energy Developments on Commercial
Fisheries Species... high research needs on impact of OWFs

doi.org/10.1111/faf....

Closures can be effective to protect benthic habitats, but not always.

After 17 years excluding bottom fishing in Georges Bank regions, only subtle differences were found between benthic communities of adjacent open and closed areas with no consistent patterns across taxa.

doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

2 out of 15 issues are:
(1) Anthropogenic impacts on seabed carbon stores
(2) Potential alteration of ocean processes by offshore wind energy infrastructure

#MarSocSci alert! All presentations from MSEAS 2024 - the 2nd Marine Social-Ecological Systems symposium - in Yokohama, June 2024, are now available online. 🔽
meetings.pices.int/publications...