Search Results - "Tuck, Geoffrey N."

A comprehensive large‐scale assessment of fisheries bycatch risk to threatened seabird populations by Clay, Thomas A., Small, Cleo, Tuck, Geoffrey N., Pardo, Deborah, Carneiro, Ana P. B., Wood, Andrew G., Croxall, John P., Crossin, Glenn T., Phillips, Richard A., Paiva, Vitor

“…Incidental mortality (bycatch) in fisheries remains the greatest threat to many large marine vertebrates and is a major barrier to fisheries sustainability…”
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Risk equivalence as an alternative to balancing mean value when trading draft selections and players in major sporting leagues by Tuck, Geoffrey N, Richards, Shane A

“…In sports leagues that use an annual draft to assign eligible players to clubs, having a value associated with a draft selection can allow clubs to anticipate…”
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Fisheries bycatch as an inadvertent human-induced evolutionary mechanism by Barbraud, Christophe, Tuck, Geoffrey N, Thomson, Robin, Delord, Karine, Weimerskirch, Henri

“…Selective harvesting of animals by humans can affect the sustainability and genetics of their wild populations. Bycatch - the accidental catch of non-target…”
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Effects of Climate Change and Fisheries Bycatch on Shy Albatross (Thalassarche cauta) in Southern Australia by Thomson, Robin B, Alderman, Rachael L, Tuck, Geoffrey N, Hobday, Alistair J

“…The impacts of climate change on marine species are often compounded by other stressors that make direct attribution and prediction difficult. Shy albatrosses…”
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Lead us not into tanktation: a simulation modelling approach to gain insights into incentives for sporting teams to tank by Tuck, Geoffrey N, Whitten, Athol R

“…Annual draft systems are the principal method used by teams in major sporting leagues to recruit amateur players. These draft systems frequently take one of…”
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Ingestion of fishing gear and entanglements of seabirds: Monitoring and implications for management by Phillips, Richard A., Ridley, Cindy, Reid, Keith, Pugh, Philip J.A., Tuck, Geoffrey N., Harrison, Nancy

“…Fisheries are increasingly adopting ecosystem approaches to better manage impacts on non-target species. Although deliberate dumping of plastics at sea is…”
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Spatio-temporal trends of longline fishing effort in the Southern Ocean and implications for seabird bycatch by Tuck, Geoffrey N, Polacheck, Tom, Bulman, Cathy M

“…Longline fisheries have expanded throughout the world's oceans since major commercial distant-water pelagic fleets began fishing for tuna and tuna-like species…”
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Disentangling the Influence of Three Major Threats on the Demography of an Albatross Community by Cleeland, Jaimie B., Pardo, Deborah, Raymond, Ben, Tuck, Geoffrey N., McMahon, Clive R., Phillips, Richard A., Alderman, Rachael, Lea, Mary-Anne, Hindell, Mark A.

“…Climate change, fisheries and invasive species represent three pervasive threats to seabirds, globally. Understanding the relative influence and compounding…”
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A global assessment of the impact of fisheries-related mortality on shy and white-capped albatrosses: Conservation implications by Baker, G. Barry, Double, Michael C., Gales, Rosemary, Tuck, Geoffrey N., Abbott, Cathryn L., Ryan, Peter G., Petersen, Samantha L., Robertson, Christopher J.R., Alderman, Rachael

“…Hundreds of thousands of seabirds are killed each year as a result of interacting with longline and trawl fishing operations, and the severity of the impact…”
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Longline Fisheries and Foraging Distribution of Flesh-Footed Shearwaters in Eastern Australia by Thalmann, Sam J, Baker, G. Barry, Hindell, Mark, Tuck, Geoffrey N

“…Incidental seabird mortality associated with bycatch during longline commercial fishing is a conservation concern. An initial step to estimating likelihood of…”
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Deep learning methods applied to electronic monitoring data: automated catch event detection for longline fishing by Qiao, Maoying, Wang, Dadong, Tuck, Geoffrey N, Little, L Richard, Punt, Andre E, Gerner, Mike

“…Abstract Electronic monitoring (EM) systems have become functional and cost-effective tools for the conservation and sustainable harvesting of marine…”
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Which assessment configurations perform best in the face of spatial heterogeneity in fishing mortality, growth and recruitment? A case study based on pink ling in Australia by Punt, André E., Haddon, Malcolm, Tuck, Geoffrey N.

“…•Spatial structure in fish stocks is pervasive, but is often ignored.•Multiple ways are identified to address spatial structure in biological and fishery…”
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Sex‐specific effects of fisheries and climate on the demography of sexually dimorphic seabirds by Gianuca, Dimas, Votier, Stephen C., Pardo, Deborah, Wood, Andrew G., Sherley, Richard B., Ireland, Louise, Choquet, Remi, Pradel, Roger, Townley, Stuart, Forcada, Jaume, Tuck, Geoffrey N., Phillips, Richard A., Aubry, Lise

“…Many animal taxa exhibit sex‐specific variation in ecological traits, such as foraging and distribution. These differences could result in sex‐specific…”
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Evaluating risks to seabirds on the urban–coastal interface: Modelling dog attacks on little penguin populations in Tasmania by Blamey, Laura K., Bulman, Catherine M., Tuck, Geoffrey N., Woehler, Eric J., Marker, Perviz F., Patterson, Toby A.

“…Tasmania (including offshore islands) has the largest breeding population of little penguins (Eudyptula minor) in Australia, but coastal development around…”
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An integrated assessment model of seabird population dynamics: can individual heterogeneity in susceptibility to fishing explain abundance trends in Crozet wandering albatross? by Tuck, Geoffrey N., Thomson, Robin B., Barbraud, Christophe, Delord, Karine, Louzao, Maite, Herrera, Miguel, Weimerskirch, Henri

“…1. Seabirds have been incidentally caught in distant-water longline fleets operating in the Southern Ocean since at least the 1970s, and breeding numbers for…”
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Can a spatially-structured stock assessment address uncertainty due to closed areas? A case study based on pink ling in Australia by Punt, André E., Haddon, Malcolm, Little, L. Richard, Tuck, Geoffrey N.

“…•Simulation modelling explores estimation performance when the assessed area contains closed areas.•Accounting for spatial structure can reduce estimation bias…”
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Environmental associations with broad‐scale Japanese and Taiwanese pelagic longline effort in the southern Indian and Atlantic Oceans by Michael, Pamela E, Tuck, Geoffrey N, Strutton, Peter, Hobday, Alistair

“…Tunas are globally important to fisheries because of their broad distribution and high market value. However, these characteristics also complicate their…”
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Detecting regime shifts in marine systems with limited biological data: An example from southeast Australia by Litzow, Michael A., Hobday, Alistair J., Frusher, Stewart D., Dann, Peter, Tuck, Geoffrey N.

“…•We attempted to detect regime shifts in a data-poor region, southeast Australia.•Linear trends, rather than regime shifts, dominated regional ecological…”
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Nonbreeding distribution of flesh-footed shearwaters and the potential for overlap with north Pacific fisheries by Reid, Tim A., Tuck, Geoffrey N., Hindell, Mark A., Thalmann, Sam, Phillips, Richard A., Wilcox, Chris

“…•Flesh-footed shearwaters from Lord Howe Island were tracked for three non-breeding seasons.•All birds moved to the north-west Pacific Ocean in the…”
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Influence on management advice of fishers acoustics—10 year review of blue grenadier monitoring by Kloser, Rudy J., Ryan, Tim E., Tuck, Geoffrey N., Geen, Gerry

“…An industry-based acoustic observation program was developed and applied to the austral winter spawning blue grenadier fishery from 2002. Blue grenadier has…”
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