This article examines the Wolastoqiyik Wahsipekuk's green sea urchin fishery to explore the long-term implications of diversification strategies in response to ecological and economic precarities in the Canadian fishing industry. Framing diversification as a creative practice developed by commercial fishermen to navigate these vulnerabilities, it highlights how institutional frameworks shape and constrain such efforts. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Eastern Quebec during the summer of 2021, the article focuses on the specific regulatory context in which this initiative unfolds. Unlike some other First Nations in Canada, the Wolastoqiyik fishery remains closely tied to the models and oversight of Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO). An ethnographic analysis of the fishery's sociomaterial entanglements reveals both the promise and the limitations of diversification. Grounded in political ecology, the article argues that while expanding into emerging species may offer short-term relief, it cannot constitute a viable long-term response to the structural dimensions of the current ecological crisis. This calls for more transformative approaches to fisheries governance—approaches that challenge inherited management systems and engage with an era increasingly defined by socio-ecological unpredictability.

Nature-based solutions are a new approach to protecting and restoring ecosystems and are crucial for maintaining fish and sustaining fisheries. This review focuses on the potential role of Nature-based solutions in freshwater fisheries management and discusses the challenges and enablers of Nature-based solutions’ implementation and paths in Ethiopian fisheries. Nature-based solutions simultaneously address environmental, social, and economic challenges by maximizing the benefits of nature. Wetlands, floodplains, river restoration, protected areas, and river and lake riparian buffers are the most common types of Nature-based solutions used for fisheries management. The potential pathways for applications of Nature-based solutions in fisheries management include habitat restoration and rehabilitation, water management, aquaculture development, biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and creating alternative jobs and food security sources for fishers. In Ethiopia, implementing climate resilience, a blue economy, green legacy efforts, landscape restoration programs, water resource management, and protected areas are some of the enablers for utilizing and addressing Nature-based solutions in fisheries management. Therefore, leveraging finance, creating an enabling regulatory and legal environment, creating awareness, and improving cross-sectoral collaboration are needed to respond to barriers to Nature-based solutions in Ethiopia’s fisheries.

The coastal waters of Aisandami are rich in diverse coral fish resources, including snappers and groupers. A study is needed to evaluate how fisheries are managed in water. The present study was conducted to examine the implementation of the ecosystem approach to fisheries management (EAFM) for snapper and grouper fisheries by the community in Aisandami. The data used consisted of primary and secondary data obtained from various scientific publications. EAFM analysis focuses on six domains: fish resources, habitat and aquatic ecosystems, fishing technology, economy, social, and institutional. The results of the study show that in aggregate, the implementation of EAFM in the management of snapper and grouper fisheries is carried out well but is not yet optimal. Several components from each domain of the fisheries system still need to be improved to achieve the optimal EAFM-based management of fisheries.

13 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables | Populations of large pelagic sharks are declining worldwide due to overfishing. Determining the overlap between shark populations and fishing activities is important to inform conservation measures. However, for many threatened sharks the whereabouts of particularly vulnerable life-history stages - such as pregnant females and juveniles - are poorly known. Here, we investigated the spatial distribution of size classes, energy transfer and reproductive states of pregnant females of the endangered shortfin mako, Isurus oxyrinchus, using spatially resolved catch data from a Spanish surface longline vessel (1996 - 2009) in the South-east Pacific Ocean. Our results suggest a general eastward gradient of occurrence of pregnant females of thousands of kilometers from western oceanic feeding grounds towards the eastern Pacific, where we observed an aggregation area of small juveniles. Moreover, the potential nursery likely overlapped a longline fishing hotspot, increasing the vulnerability of juveniles from fisheries. Our results suggest that limiting fishing pressure in this area could reduce mortality of early life stages and contribute to the conservation of this endangered shark species | This work was funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) through PTDC/BMA/3536/2021 (to G. Mucientes and N. Queiroz) and CEECIND/02857/2018 (to N. Queiroz), and PTDC/ASP-PES/2503/2020 and CEECIND/CP1668/CT0007 (to M. Vedor). D.W. Sims received funding support from a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant (883583 OCEAN DEOXYFISH) and a Marine Biological Association Senior Research Fellowship | Peer reviewed

Policy brief of the EMFAF project Improving the science basis of the fisheries management of the Gulf of Bothnia herring (ImproFish). Herring is a central species in the northern Baltic Sea fishery both in terms of landing weight and economic value. Herring is also a key species in the ecosystem, and an important food item to seals, birds, and predatory fish. During the last decades, the Gulf of Bothnia herring stock has undergone major changes in biomass, as well as in individual growth, weight-at-age, and maturity-at-age, but the causes of these changes are poorly understood. Consequently, the herring fisheries management can not properly account for these changes, their causes and consequences. To ensure good management of this important resource, improvements in the knowledge base are needed. ImproFish proposes three changes to the stock assessment. These changes could significantly improve the herring stock assessment, and hence support sustainable fisheries management. 1. Improve abundance indices 2. Consider fish size and growth 3. Identify sub-stocks

This paper examines how the EU's Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) fishing policy has influenced Vietnam's recent fisheries management reforms. We draw on the idea of policy mobility to unpack how the EU's IUU objectives to better manage Vietnamese fisheries is being implemented across national and provincial spaces. We find that the EU-influenced IUU regulations serves to reterritorialise fisheries management in Vietnam, along with reworking actors' socio-spatial relations. Translating policy into practice results in a significant mismatch between IUU regulations and everyday fishing practices, raising questions about the sustainability of the newly designed IUU fisheries policies. Vietnam's core policy narratives have shifted from a fisheries industry that was mainly extractive, to a fisheries industry relying on significant control and surveillance management. We conclude by troubling the notion of the EU as a 'green actor', and by reflecting on how the EU is reshaping fishing policies across the global South.

The field of computer vision has progressed rapidly over the past ten years, with noticeable improvements in techniques to detect, locate, and classify objects. Concurrent with these advances, improved accessibility through machine learning software libraries has sparked investigations of applications across multiple domains. In the areas of fisheries research and management, efforts have centered on the localization of fish and classification by species, as such tools can estimate the health, size, and movement of fish populations. To aid in the interpretation of computer vision for fisheries research management tasks, a survey of the recent literature was conducted. In contrast to prior reviews, this survey focuses on employed evaluation metrics and datasets as well as the challenges associated with applying machine learning to a fisheries research and management context. Misalignment between applications and commonly used evaluation metrics and datasets mischaracterizes the efficacy of emerging computer vision techniques for fisheries research and management tasks. Aqueous, turbid, and variable lighted deployment settings further complicate the use of computer vision and generalizability of the reported results. Informed by these inherent challenges, culling surveillance data, exploratory data collection in remote settings, and selective passage and traps are presented as opportunities for future research.

International audience | Global geopolitics heavily influences international fisheries management. It also influences the engagement of fishing nations within regional fisheries management organisations (RFMOs). This is especially true for participating territories. In this paper, we assess the participation and representation of French Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) and Outermost Regions (ORs) within two major tuna RFMOs: the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) and the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), through an equity lens. The article provides an overview of the legal status of these territories under EU law and their roles in the conservation and management of tuna fisheries, by employing Bennett's equity framework to assess their involvement across various dimensions of ocean equity. By highlighting the strategic importance of these regions for France and the EU, the article underscores the necessity for a more equitable approach in integrating OCTs and ORs in tuna RFMOs, ensuring that their specific needs and contributions are acknowledged and valued in regional fisheries governance.

While community-based fisheries management (CBFM) is promoted as a promising approach to achieving sustainable fisheries management, its inclusiveness is increasingly questioned in the literature. Studies that explore the inclusion of gender along other intersectional social identities in CBFM are scarce. This research gap may limit a comprehensive understanding of power dynamics in fisheries settings, while reinforcing exclusive approaches in fisheries governance. In this study, we draw on literature on participatory exclusion, intersectionality and lived experiences, to examine gender-inclusiveness in CBFM through a case study on the South Coast of Kenya. We applied qualitative data collection methods, combining participant observation, semi-structured interviews (n=18), focus group discussions (n=6) and relief maps (n= 32). Our findings indicate that women’s participation in CBFM is limited and systematically lower than men’s participation. Barriers to women’s participation in CBFM are complex and interlaced, including socio-cultural, economic, and institutional barriers, and specific restrictions to women’s access to leadership. In addition, our findings highlight the intersected nature of lived experiences related to CBFM places and suggest that CBFM may sustain and reinforce social inequalities in fishing communities. Overall, our results tend to confirm the relevance of the participatory exclusion concept to CBFM in coastal Kenya. Our study demonstrates the importance of applying an intersectional framework to study the complexity of power relationships in CBFM contexts, as well as fisheries management and governance. We conclude by providing key recommendations towards inclusive management approaches in fisheries settings.