A Scientific Basis for Regulating Deep-Sea Fishing by Depth

• Published in: Current Biology
• Main Authors: Clarke, Jo, Milligan, Rosanna J, Bailey, David M, Neat, Francis C
• Other Authors: Clarke, Joanne, University of Glasgow, Scottish Government - Enterprise, Environment & Digital - Marine Scotland, Biological and Environmental Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier BV 2015
• Subjects: Tac; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1893/33129; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.07.070; http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/retrieve/efa9aa2a-caf1-488b-a4f0-739cd779757a/1-s2.0-S0960982215009380-main.pdf

The deep sea is the world’s largest ecosystem [1], with high levels of biodiversity [2, 3] and many species that exhibit life-history characteristics that make them vulnerable to high levels of exploitation [4]. Many fisheries in the deep sea have a track record of being unsustainable [5, 6]. In the...