Stephen J. Hall

TL;DR: Marine reserves are a promising tool for fisheries management and conservation of biodiversity, but they are not a panacea for fishery management problems as discussed by the authors, and their successful use requires a case-by-case understanding of the spatial structure of impacted fisheries, ecosystems and human communities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identified 148 individual LCAs for ASF that evaluated major production methods in an effort to collate and systematize their understanding of the environmental impacts across the range of animal production methods.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present trends in land-use practices, with consequences for nutrient, sediment and freshwater input to coastal seas appear to be particularly worrying, but the poor state of many demersal fisheries systems must also be acknowledged.

TL;DR: Present evidence suggests that fishing is potentially a much greater threat to Lophelia than is the oil industry, in terms of both the spatial scale of the activity and its destructive capacity.

TL;DR: In view of the status of many fisheries and public concerns about the ecosystem, policy makers are now often charged with both managing fisheries more effectively and mitigating trawl impacts: in particular, they are facing increasing pressure to establish areas closed to trawling (Marine Protected Areas, MPAs).