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Sowing potential transformative changes in the fishing and agrifood systems – c...
Moranta, Joan; Florido-del-Corral, David; López-López, Lucía; Gómez, Sílvia; Agujetas, Julio; Albo Puigserver, Marta; Brent, Zoe W.; Bathily, LamineThe need to better understand the trade-offs between food production, trade and consumption; social and environmental impacts of food systems and food health requirements remains a challenge. Additionally, there is an urgency to transform the food system to reach the dietary patterns required to address the current diet -environment-health trilemma. Transformative changes are required to deal with the food syst...
Food web changes associated with drought and invasive species in a tropical sem...
Bezerra, Luis Artur Valões; Angelini, Ronaldo; Vitule, Jean Ricardo Simões; Coll, Marta; Sanchez-Botero, Jorge IvánFish and invertebrates are introduced in freshwaters around the world for commercial purposes, despite widely known impacts on food webs and biological invasions. As a proxy for artificial environments, we modeled a typical reservoir in a Brazilian semiarid region using an ecosystem approach. We compared the role of native and nonnative invasive species (NIS) in the food web, between dry and wet periods, and un...
Energy content of anchovy and sardine using surrogate calorimetry methods
Campanini, Claudia; Albo Puigserver, Marta; Gérez, Sara; Lloret-Lloret, Elena; Giménez, Joan; Pennino, Maria Grazia; Bellido, José MaríaEuropean anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) and sardine (Sardina pilchardus) are crucial species for the marine ecosystem of the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea. They account for a high percentage of fish landings and they represent an important economic income for the fishery sector. Concerns over their stock status are rising in recent years as biomass, growth, reproductive capacity, and body condition of both s...
Consumption rates and interaction with fisheries of Mediterranean common dolphi...
Giménez, Joan; Authier, Matthieu; Valeiras, Julio; Abad, Esther; Marçalo, Ana; Coll, Marta; Gauffier, Pauline; Santos, M. Begoña; de Stephanis, RenaudCommon dolphins (Delphinus delphis) are top predators, feeding on a wide variety of prey species, several of which are also targeted by fisheries. The last remaining healthy group of the endangered Mediterranean common dolphin subpopulation is located in the Alboran Sea. Their feeding grounds overlap with the fishing grounds of trawlers targeting European hake (Merluccius merluccius) and blue whiting (Micromess...
Modelling the spatial distribution of Sardina pilchardus and Engraulis encrasic...
Gordó-Vilaseca, Cesc; Pennino, Maria Grazia; Albo Puigserver, Marta; Wolff, Matthias; Coll, MartaWe investigated the main drivers of eggs and larvae distributions of European sardine and anchovy from the NW Mediterranean Sea. We used Generalized Additive Models and satellite environmental data. Mainly sea surface temperature, but also currents, surface height, and primary production were significantly correlated with both species' early stages distributions. Anchovy optimal temperature upper limit was not ...
Strong fisheries management and governance positively impact ecosystem status
Bundy, Alida; Chuenpagdee, Ratana; Boldt, Jennifer L.; Borges, Maria de Fatima; Camara, Mohamed Lamine; Coll, Marta; Diallo, Ibrahima; Fox, CliveFisheries have had major negative impacts on marine ecosystems, and effective fisheries management and governance are needed to achieve sustainable fisheries, biodiversity conservation goals and thus good ecosystem status. To date, the IndiSeas programme (Indicators for the Seas) has focussed on assessing the ecological impacts of fishing at the ecosystem scale using ecological indicators. Here, we explore fish...
Fishers' perceptions about the EU discards policy and its economic impact on sm...
Villasante, Sebastian; Pierce, Graham J.; Pita, Cristina; Pazos Guimerans, César; Garcia Rodrigues, João; Antelo, Manel; Da Rocha, José MariaThis paper investigates the impact of the European Union landing obligation in the Galician (North West of Spain) multispecies small-scale gillnet fishery. By combining results from semi-structured interviews with small-scale fishers and a bioeconomic model, we found that the percentage of discards for small-scale fisheries is usually low, which is consistent with general empirical observations globally but can...