Marine Policy

These are the annual Taxonomic Resolution Index (TRI) scores of reported domestic landings (retrieved from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation) of elasmobranchs by Mediterranean and Black Sea countries (1950-2014). The TRI scores are ratios of the number of unique elasmobranch taxa reported (numerator) to the number of commercial taxa occurring in a country's waters (denominator; >10% of EEZ area). Taxonomic scores for both the numerator and denominator are weighted by their taxonomic precision; species receive a full point. In cases when a country reported both a taxon and a higher taxon above it (e.g., reports of thornback ray (Raja clavata) as well as Batoidea) in the same year, points were counted only for the most precise taxon. Tonnage is not considered in TRI, so scores do not reflect the amount of landings reported at each taxonomic level.

the Kuwaiti FPA issued 9,755 for illegal fishing during a period of 16 years. This is an average of 609.7 illegal fishing incidents recorded every year, which seems excessive, but given that most fisher interviewees said they rarely see FPA vessels at sea, and all the illegal fisher interviewees said they had never been caught by the authorities, the number of IUU fishing incidents that the FPA did not report is likely to have been substantial. This shortfall of the FPA is partly explained by its prioritization of safety at sea over fishery monitoring. the total number of tickets issued for IUU fishing between 2001 and 2017 was 9,755, meaning that the FPA issued an average of 573.8 tickets per year, which is three tickets every two days. The proportion of IUU offenses committed by immigrant fishers was 53%, and by Kuwaiti fishers was 45%.

Global shark fishing policies by nation.

The data ''bringing harbours alive'' demonstrates the results of the hypotheses that were set out to be tested: stakeholder group differences in support for ecological engineering, the link between level of concern for environment and support for ecological engineering, socio-economic differences in support for ecological engineering (education, income), level of harbour harbour development/ modification by artificial structures, and willingness to pay for ecological engineering.

Status of Australia's fish stocks assessed relative to target objectives.

The complete dataset, a total of 580 map records, supporting these analyses, is provided as supplemental material in the form of an excel spreadsheet. Each record contains information on habitat type, habitat features, species, depth, site location, region, regional sea, degradation, info on recovery/restoration potential, management/restoration suggestions, main activities and pressures, map source, source link, references, and comments.

Questionnaire used in surveys with households and resource users.

Research questionnaires

This data set covers the experimental data collected via framed field experiments conducted with small-scale fishers in Turkey.

This excel sheet includes the assigned clusters and data inputs used to arrive at cluster designations.Both the raw numbers as well as the calculated z-scores for each of our explanatory variables are included. The data set also includes other key pieces of information from MPAtlas like the name, host country, and ID numbers for multiple databases for each of the 2,938 MPAs we analyzed.