Seabird longline bycatch reduction devices increase target catch while reducing bycatch: A meta-analysis

Retraction notice to ‘Key research priorities for the future of fish and fisheries in Australia’ [Pacific Conservation Biology (2022) doi:10.1071/PC21073]

“…However, over recent decades there has been a growing emphasis on management approaches that consider the needs of all fishing sectors, and account for ecosystem-wide impacts. Some of the applied management outcomes that have come from future thinking include reducing incidental catches or impacts on non-target species through bycatch reduction technologies (Wakefield et al 2017;Avery et al 2017) and the future projection of environmental conditions to inform adaptive management boundaries (Hobday and Hartmann 2006;Hobday et al 2011). Other areas of recent focus include broadening the scope of fisheries management to better achieve triple bottom-line outcomes (i.e.…”

Assessing the risk of bias in choice of search sources for environmental meta‐analyses

“…Thirty articles from 22 journals out of 28 139 unique records retrieved by the searches for meta‐analyses met all the eligibility criteria (flow diagram: Appendix S3; list of eligible articles: Appendix S4; list of articles excluded at full text and unobtainable records: Appendix S5), resulting in 137 eligible meta‐analyses (ie, 137 overall mean effect sizes without duplication of primary studies between meta‐analyses presented in the 30 articles, 32‐61 hence retaining independence of individual effect sizes). These 30 eligible meta‐analytical articles conducted diverse searches in addition to the single‐platform search in WoS (Figure 3).…”

What to expect from alternative management strategies to conserve seabirds? Hints from a dynamic modelling framework applied to an endangered population

“…Our results highlight the potential benefits of rat eradication and fisheries control, by removing bycatch, for Shag conservation (Table 3 and Table S4 in Supporting Information Appendix ) (Jouventin, Bried & Micol, 2003; Bell et al ., 2016; Avery et al ., 2017). In fact, rats are present on most of the world’s major islands and are known to negatively affect island biota, exacerbated by endemism or small population sizes that are inherently susceptible to extinction (Atkinson, 1996; Oliveira et al ., 2019).…”