Paulus Inekela Kainge

TL;DR: A systematic, high-resolution analysis of bottom trawl fishing footprints for 24 regions on continental shelves and slopes of five continents and New Zealand, finding footprints were generally smaller in regions where fisheries met targets for exploitation rates, implying collateral environmental benefits of effective fisheries management.

TL;DR: The NansClim project (2010-2013) represented a regional collaboration to assess the effects of climate on Benguela dynamics, ranging from changes in the physico-chemical habitats, plankton, pelagic and demersal fish communities, to cross-cutting evaluation at subsystem and regional scales as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: It is concluded that future recovery of the pelagic fishery off Namibia is likely to be considerably challenged because of significant overlaps in space and time between fish and jellyfish, and through the effects of competition and predation effects of jellyfish on fish.

TL;DR: It is concluded that M. paradoxus do not appear to spawn in Namibian waters, and this new concept, designated here as a 'maturity reference line', could enhance understanding of the spawning biology of other species with a similarly complex, indeterminate spawning strategy.

TL;DR: For many long-lived fish populations such as hake and cod, management should aim to maintain the age-structure of the population, rather than encouraging, or even targeting, exploitation of large, old fish.