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Working group on cephalopod fisheries and life history (Wgceph; outputs from 20...
Abad, Esther; Ainsworth, Gillian; Akselrud, Caitlin; Allcock, Louise; Badouvas, Nicholas; Baker, Krista; Barrett, Christopher; Bobowski, BiancaWGCEPH worked on six Terms of Reference. These involved reporting on the status of stocks; reviewing advances in stock identification, assessment for fisheries management and for the Ma- rine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), including some exploratory stock assessments; re- viewing impacts of human activities on cephalopods; developing identification guides and rec- ommendations for fishery data collection;...
Impacts of anthropogenic activities on cephalopods
Pierce, Graham; Abad, Esther; Allcock, Louise; Badouvas, Nicholas; Barrett, Christopher; González-Gómez, Roberto; Hendrickson, Lisa; Lefkaditou, EvgeniaIn past centuries, the impacts on cephalopods from humankind were negligible. The first documented small-scale exploitation of cephalopods occurred in the Mediterranean and Asia. Between 1950-2019, global cephalopod catches increased by about an order of magnitude, from 0.5 million tones to a peak of 4.85 million tons. The human impact on the oceans also increased substantially in this period. Human-induced cli...