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A database of global marine commercial, small-scale, illegal and unreported fisheries catch 1950–2014 by Watson, Reg A.

“…Global fisheries landings data from a range of public sources was harmonised and mapped to 30-min spatial cells based on the distribution of the reported taxa…”
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Evolution of global marine fishing fleets and the response of fished resources by Rousseau, Yannick, Watson, Reg A., Blanchard, Julia L., Fulton, Elizabeth A.

“…Previous reconstructions of marine fishing fleets have aggregated data without regard to the artisanal and industrial sectors. Engine power has often been…”
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Energy Flow Through Marine Ecosystems: Confronting Transfer Efficiency by Eddy, Tyler D., Bernhardt, Joey R., Blanchard, Julia L., Cheung, William W.L., Colléter, Mathieu, du Pontavice, Hubert, Fulton, Elizabeth A., Gascuel, Didier, Kearney, Kelly A., Petrik, Colleen M., Roy, Tilla, Rykaczewski, Ryan R., Selden, Rebecca, Stock, Charles A., Wabnitz, Colette C.C., Watson, Reg A.

“…Transfer efficiency is the proportion of energy passed between nodes in food webs. It is an emergent, unitless property that is difficult to measure, and…”
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Signature of ocean warming in global fisheries catch by Cheung, William W. L., Watson, Reg, Pauly, Daniel

“…The mean temperature of the catch, an index designed to characterize the effect of climate change on global fisheries catch, increased at a rate of 0.19…”
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Fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions of world fisheries by Parker, Robert W. R., Blanchard, Julia L., Gardner, Caleb, Green, Bridget S., Hartmann, Klaas, Tyedmers, Peter H., Watson, Reg A.

“…Food production is responsible for a quarter of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions globally. Marine fisheries are typically excluded from global…”
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The spatial expansion and ecological footprint of fisheries (1950 to present) by Swartz, Wilf, Sala, Enric, Tracey, Sean, Watson, Reg, Pauly, Daniel

“…Using estimates of the primary production required (PPR) to support fisheries catches (a measure of the footprint of fishing), we analyzed the geographical…”
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Global reductions in seafloor biomass in response to climate change by Jones, Daniel O. B, Yool, Andrew, Wei, Chih‐Lin, Henson, Stephanie A, Ruhl, Henry A, Watson, Reg A, Gehlen, Marion

“…Seafloor organisms are vital for healthy marine ecosystems, contributing to elemental cycling, benthic remineralization, and ultimately sequestration of…”
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Global fishing capacity and fishing effort from 1950 to 2012 by Bell, Justin D, Watson, Reg A, Ye, Yimin

“…Global marine wild‐capture landings have remained relatively stable for >20 years; however, there is a lack of credible fishing capacity and effort information…”
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Over 90 endangered fish and invertebrates are caught in industrial fisheries by Roberson, Leslie A., Watson, Reg A., Klein, Carissa J.

“…Industrial-scale harvest of species at risk of extinction is controversial and usually highly regulated on land and for charismatic marine animals (e.g…”
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Species traits and climate velocity explain geographic range shifts in an ocean‐warming hotspot by Sunday, Jennifer M, Pecl, Gretta T, Frusher, Stewart, Hobday, Alistair J, Hill, Nicole, Holbrook, Neil J, Edgar, Graham J, Stuart‐Smith, Rick, Barrett, Neville, Wernberg, Thomas, Watson, Reg A, Smale, Dan A, Fulton, Elizabeth A, Slawinski, Dirk, Feng, Ming, Radford, Ben T, Thompson, Peter A, Bates, Amanda E, Worm, Boris

“…Species' ranges are shifting globally in response to climate warming, with substantial variability among taxa, even within regions. Relationships between range…”
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Food production shocks across land and sea by Cottrell, Richard S., Nash, Kirsty L., Halpern, Benjamin S., Remenyi, Tomas A., Corney, Stuart P., Fleming, Aysha, Fulton, Elizabeth A., Hornborg, Sara, Johne, Alexandra, Watson, Reg A., Blanchard, Julia L.

“…Sudden losses to food production (that is, shocks) and their consequences across land and sea pose cumulative threats to global sustainability. We conducted an…”
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Global ecosystem overfishing: Clear delineation within real limits to production by Link, Jason S, Watson, Reg A

“…The well-documented value of marine fisheries is threatened by overfishing. Management typically focuses on target populations but lacks effective tools to…”
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Reconciling fisheries catch and ocean productivity by Stock, Charles A., John, Jasmin G., Rykaczewski, Ryan R., Asch, Rebecca G., Cheung, William W. L., Dunne, John P., Friedland, Kevin D., Lam, Vicky W. Y., Sarmiento, Jorge L., Watson, Reg A.

“…Photosynthesis fuels marine food webs, yet differences in fish catch across globally distributed marine ecosystems far exceed differences in net primary…”
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Farming and the geography of nutrient production for human use: a transdisciplinary analysis by Herrero, Mario, Thornton, Philip K, Power, Brendan, Bogard, Jessica R, Remans, Roseline, Fritz, Steffen, Gerber, James S, Nelson, Gerald, See, Linda, Waha, Katharina, Watson, Reg A, West, Paul C, Samberg, Leah H, van de Steeg, Jeannette, Stephenson, Eloise, van Wijk, Mark, Havlík, Petr

“…Information about the global structure of agriculture and nutrient production and its diversity is essential to improve present understanding of national food…”
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Serial exploitation of global sea cucumber fisheries by Anderson, Sean C, Flemming, Joanna Mills, Watson, Reg, Lotze, Heike K

“…In recent decades, invertebrate fisheries have expanded in catch and value worldwide. One increasingly harvested group is sea cucumbers (class Holothuroidea),…”
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Fishing down the deep: Accounting for within-species changes in depth of fishing by Watson, Reg A., Morato, Telmo

“…► We present new estimates of the global mean depth of fishing. ► Our results showed a stronger shift to deeper water than previously estimated. ► Deep water…”
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The global ocean is an ecosystem: simulating marine life and fisheries by Christensen, Villy, Coll, Marta, Buszowski, Joe, Cheung, William W. L., Frölicher, Thomas, Steenbeek, Jeroen, Stock, Charles A., Watson, Reg A., Walters, Carl J.

“…Aim: There has been considerable effort allocated to understanding the impact of climate change on our physical environment, but comparatively little to how…”
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Mapping nearly a century and a half of global marine fishing: 1869–2015 by Watson, Reg A., Tidd, A.

“…Understanding global fisheries patterns contributes significantly to their management. By combining harmonized unmapped data sources with maps from satellite…”
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Global marine yield halved as fishing intensity redoubles by Watson, Reg A, Cheung, William W L, Anticamara, Jonathan A, Sumaila, Rashid U, Zeller, Dirk, Pauly, Daniel

“…There is widespread concern and debate about the state of global marine resources and the ecosystems supporting them, notably global fisheries, as catches now…”
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Global fishing between jurisdictions with unequal fisheries management by Klein, Carissa J, Kuempel, Caitlin D, Watson, Reg A, Teneva, Lida, Coll, Marta, Mora, Camilo

“…Abstract The demand for seafood is increasing globally and is being met, in some cases, by unsustainable fishing practices. When a country fishes outside of…”
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