Impact of fishing on size composition and diversity of demersal fish communities

By G. Bianchi, H. Gislason, K. Graham, L. Hill, X. Jin, K. Koranteng, S. Manickchand-Heileman, I. Payá, K. Sainsbury, F. Sánchez and 1 more. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Long-term trends in the trophic structure of the North Sea fish community: evidence from stable-isotope analysis, size-spectra and community metrics (2002, unknown): “Since fishing intensity is positively correlated with the slopes of size-spectra (Pope et al. 1988; Rice and Gislason 1996; Bianchi et al. 2000), we would expect changes in slope to reflect changes in the mean trophic level of the community.”
Changes in the North Sea fish community: evidence of indirect effects of fishing? (2003, background): “Later investigations indicated that changes in the slope of size spectra are indeed related to changes in exploitation rate (Pope et al., 1987; Murawski and Idoine, 1992; Gobert, 1994; Bianchi et al., 2000; Zwanenburg, 2000).”
Size structural change in lightly exploited coral reef fish communities: Evidence for weak indirect effects (2004, methodology): “Previous studies using size metrics to describe the change in community structure generally examine change in the metric over time (Rice and Gislason 1996; Duplisea et al. 1997; Bianchi et al. 2000).”
Global variation in marine fish body size and its role in biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (2010, background): “…that reductions in average body size, whether resulting from environmental (Choi et al. 2005, Shackell et al. 2010) or sizeselective fishing (Bianchi et al. 2000, Shin et al. 2005, Worm et al. 2009) may impact ecosystem functioning and/or stability more rapidly and more profoundly than, or…”
Modelling an exploited marine fish community with 15 parameters - results from a simple size-based model (2006, unknown): “This general relationship between slope and fishing pressure has been observed empirically (Pope and Knights, 1982; Pope et al., 1988; Rice and Gislason, 1996; Bianchi et al., 2000), and is supported by simulation studies (Gislason and Rice, 1998; Benoit and Rochet, 2004; Shin and Cury, 2004).”
A length-based multispecies model for evaluating community responses to fishing (2006, methodology): “In this respect, it is comforting that the patterns in community structure observed are largely consistent with those observed elsewhere (Rice and Gislason 1996; Duplisea and Bravington 1999; Bianchi et al. 2000).”
Definitions of overfishing from an ecosystem perspective (2000, background): “For example, the slope of the multispecies size-spectrum of fishes has been used to interpret changes in overall harvest patterns within and among ecosystem (Rice and Gislason, 1996; Bianchi et al., 2000).”
Abundance-distribution relationships and conservation of exploited marine fishes (2004, result): “This interpretation is consistent with evaluations of assemblage size-frequency distributions from the Scotian Shelf and other heavily fished areas (Bianchi et al. 2000).”
Which community indicators can measure the impact of fishing? A review and proposals (2003, background): “Indeed such time trends have been found in the North Sea and Scotian Shelf (Rice and Gislason 1996; Bianchi et al. 2000).”
Effects of protection from fishing on the lengths of targeted and non-targeted fish species at the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia (2009, result): “This finding supports an ever-growing number of studies that show fishing strongly affects the size of targeted species in a population (e.g. Bianchi et al. 2000, Tetreault & Ambrose 2007, DeMartini et al. 2008).”
Long-term and spillover effects of a marine protected area on an exploited fish community (2009, background): “However, there is also evidence to indicate that in some cases fishing may also increase diversity (Bianchi et al. 2000).”
Using an individual-based model of fish assemblages to study the response of size spectra to changes in fishing (2004, background): “However, irregularities are apparent, particularly the occurrence of low fish numbers in small size classes leading to a curvature of the size spectrum (Bianchi et al. 2000).”
Reference points and reference directions for size-based indicators of community structure (2005, background): “Despite numerous compilations of size spectra for marine fish communities (Bianchi et al., 2000), there is no evidence that a specific slope value would reflect a limit beyond which serious or irreversible harm might occur, largely because slopes are gear- and area-specific (Daan et al.”
Overfishing, tropicalization of fish stocks, uncertainty and ecosystem management: resharpening Ockham's razor (2002, background): “Effects of fishing at the life-history level of the individual species: (a) decrease in body size/weight (e.g., McAllister et al., 1992; Haedrich and Barnes, 1997; Ratz et al., 1999; Bianchi et al., 2000; Zwanenburg, 2000); (b) size and age at maturity: (Beacham, 1983; Jennings and Kaiser, 1998; M”
Coupled energy pathways and the resilience of size-structured food webs (2011, methodology): “Changes in the size spectrum over time are modelled through predation-driven growth and mortality (Silvert and Platt 1980; Benoit and Rochet 2004; Zhou and Huntley 1997; Maury et al. 2007) and produce body mass distributions consistent with observed community sizeabundance data (Boudreau and Dickie ”
Testing and recommending methods for fitting size spectra to data (2017, background): “Size spectra are commonly used to examine fishing impacts at the community or ecosystem level (Rice & Gislason 1996; Bianchi et al. 2000; Shin et al. 2005; Law, Plank & Kolding 2012; Jacobsen, Gislason & Andersen 2014; Thorpe et al. 2015) and have been more broadly used in analyses of…”