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Workshop on accounting for fishers and other stakeholders’ perceptions of the d...
Angu, Chevonne; Balestri, Elena; Ballesteros, Marta; Bloecker, Alexandra; Cadrin, Steve; Christensen, Helle; Curtis, David; Dandy, Rufus; Evan, DerekThe objective of the Workshop on accounting for fishers and other stakeholders’ perceptions of the dynamics of fish stocks in ICES advice (WKAFPA) was to identify where and how stake- holder information could be incorporated in the ICES fisheries advice process. It adopted an operational definition of the concept of perception, where perceptions result from observations, interpreted in light of experience, that...
First direct evidence of adult European eels migrating to their breeding place ...
Wright, Rosalind M.; Piper, Adam T.; Aarestrup, Kim; Azevedo, José M. N.; Cowan, George; Don, Andy; Gollock, Matthew; Rodriguez Ramallo, SaraThe European eel (Anguilla anguilla) is critically endangered (according to the most recent IUCN assessment) and has suffered a 95% decline in recruitment since the 1980s, attributed in part to factors occurring during the marine phases of its life-cycle. As an adult, the European eel undertakes the longest spawning migration of all anguillid eels, a distance of 5000 to 10,000 km across the Atlantic Ocean to th...
Testing a global standard for quantifying species recovery and assessing conser...
Grace, Molly K.; Akçakaya, H. Resit; Bennett, Elizabeth L.; Brooks, Thomas M.; Heath, Anna; Hedges, Simon; Hilton‐Taylor, Craig; Hoffmann, MichaelRecognizing the imperative to evaluate species recovery and conservation impact, in 2012 the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) called for development of a "Green List of Species" (now the IUCN Green Status of Species). A draft Green Status framework for assessing species' progress toward recovery, published in 2018, proposed 2 separate but interlinked components: a standardized method (i.e.,...