Trait-based insights into sustainable fisheries: A four-decade perspective in Azores archipelago

The trait-based approach provides a powerful perspective for analyzing fisheries and their potential impact on marine ecological processes, offering crucial insights into sustainability and ecosystem functioning. This approach was applied to investigate trends in fish assemblages landed by both loca...

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Published in:The Science of the total environment 2024-07, Vol.935, p.173271-173271, Article 173271
Main Authors: Costa, Eudriano F.S., Menezes, Gui M., Colaço, Ana
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Atlantic islands
Azores
Fishing practices
Functional redundancy
Functional vulnerability
Sustainability
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Summary:The trait-based approach provides a powerful perspective for analyzing fisheries and their potential impact on marine ecological processes, offering crucial insights into sustainability and ecosystem functioning. This approach was applied to investigate trends in fish assemblages landed by both local and coastal fishing fleets in the Azores archipelago over the past four decades (1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s). A matrix of ten traits was built to assess functional redundancy (Fred), functional over-redundancy (FOve), and functional vulnerability (FVul) for the fish assemblages caught by every fishing fleet in each decade. The susceptibility of the Azorean fishery to negative impacts on ecosystem functioning was evidenced by low FRed (
ISSN:0048-9697
1879-1026
DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173271