Driftnet fishing and biodiversity conservation: the case study of the large-scale Moroccan driftnet fleet operating in the Alboran Sea (SW Mediterranean)

By S. Tudela, Abdelouahed Kai Kai, F. Maynou, Mohamed El Andalossi, Paolo Guglielmi. 2005

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

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Marine mammal bycatch in gillnet and other entangling net fisheries, 1990 to 2011 (2013, background): “Although 1000s of striped dolphins are still killed in the Mediterranean each year in drift nets (e.g. Tudela et al. 2005), they remain the most abundant cetaceans in the region, numbering at least 10 000 (Aguilar & Gaspari 2012).”
Ecology and conservation of common bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus in the Mediterranean Sea (2009, background): “About a hundred national Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) of different types, sizes and purposes have been established in Algeria, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Monaco, Morocco, Slovenia, Spain, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey, but specific measures for cetacean conservation”
A conceptual framework for the integral management of marine protected areas (2009, unknown): “Fishing has an environmental effect on many coastal areas [34,39] and it can exert pressure over the marine environment in a number of different ways: i) Extraction or harvesting on the resource at a higher rate than its capacity to regenerate is the most direct pressure (e.”
From common to rare: The case of the Mediterranean common dolphin (2011, background): “…if by-catch in fishing gear is an important source of mortality for small cetaceans like common dolphins (Silvani et al., 1999; López et al., 2003; Tudela et al., 2005) particularly when fishing pressure increases, only few by-caught animals were observed and reported in the area across the…”
The biology and ecology of the ocean sunfish Mola mola: a review of current knowledge and future research perspectives (2009, methodology): “A crude calculation using values from a recent study of the Moroccan fleet ( Tudela et al. 2005 ) suggests an annual bycatch of 36,450 ocean sunfish.”
Estimating the Worldwide Extent of Illegal Fishing (2009, methodology): “Our primary data sources were several key composite studies [6,20,42–44], supplemented by country-specific studies [15,19,33,45–86].”
The Biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea: Estimates, Patterns, and Threats (2010, background): “For sea turtles, the overall mortality rate caused by entanglement in fishing gear and by habitat degradation is poorly known [95], but for marine mammals the major threats clearly derive from human activities: direct or indirect effects of exploitation, such as prey depletion, direct killing, and f”
The conservation status of pelagic sharks and rays : report of the IUCN Shark Specialist Group Pelagic Shark Red List Workshop (2009, background): “0 be targeting sharks (especially threshers) near the Strait of Gibraltar (Tudela et al. 2005).”
Abundance of small cetaceans in waters of the central Spanish Mediterranean (2006, background): “However, illegal Moroccan driftnets are still used in the Alboran Sea capturing accidentally more than 10% of the estimated population size of striped and common dolphins ( Tudela et al. 2005 ).”