date:Jan 20, 2014
caught as by-catch, become threatened with extinction.
In this study, researchers develop a method which uses readily available data for predicting the threat of overfishing based on influential biological and socioeconomic factors.
For each fishery (defined by the mix of target species, area and equipment used) and year the researchers calculated the 'vulnerability' of each species based on how its population's growth rate is affected by fishing effort (e.g. the number of hooks deployed, days