Publications and Reports

Projects:

• Bjorkland, R., L.B. Crowder, K.L. Eckert, N. Saladin, D. Dunn, L. Lester, S. Eckert, and A. Long. 2007. A summary review of the wider Caribbean fisheries and their relationships to sea turtles, marine mammals and seabirds. Proceedings of the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute 59: 391-393.
• Boustany, A.M., B. Best, and P. Halpin. Target and Non-Target Catch in the US Atlantic Longline Fishery in Relation to Indices of Convergence. Marine Ecology Progress Series. Submitted, November 2008.
• Brothers, N. 2008. How accurate are observer reported kills of albatrosses on longlines? Final Report to Project GloBAL. Duke University and Blue Ocean Institute. October 2008. 62 pp.
• Cox, T.M., R.L. Lewison, R. Žydelis, L.B. Crowder, C. Safina, and A.J. Read. 2007. Comparing effectiveness of experimental and implemented bycatch reduction measures: the ideal and the real. Conservation Biology 21(5): 1155-1164.
• Dunn, D.C., C.Y. Kot, and P.N. Halpin. 2008. A comparison of methods to spatially represent pelagic longline fishing effort in catch and bycatch studies. Fisheries Research 92: 268-276.
• Dunn, D.C., K. Stewart, R. Bjorkland, M. Haughton, S. Singh-Renton, R. Lewison, L. Thorne, P.N. Halpin. A regional analysis of coastal fishing effort and intensity in the wider Caribbean. Fisheries Research. Submitted, April 2008.
• Eckert, S.A., J.E. Moore, D.C. Dunn, R.S. van Buiten, K.L. Eckert, and P.N. Halpin. 2008. Modeling loggerhead turtle movement in the Mediterranean: Importance of body size and oceanography. Ecological Applications 18(2):290-308.
• Finkelstein M, V. Bakker, D.F. Doak, B. Sullivan, R. Lewison, et al. 2008. Evaluating the potential effectiveness of compensatory mitigation strategies for marine bycatch. PLoS ONE 3(6): e2480. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002480.
• Kiszka, J., C. Muir, C. Poonian, T.M. Cox, O.A. Amir, J. Bourjea, Y. Razafindrakoto, N. Wambitji, and N. Bristol. 2009. Marine mammal bycatch in the southwest Indian Ocean: Review and need for a comprehensive status assessment. Western Indian Ocean J. Mar. Sci. 7(2): 119–136.
• Kot, C.Y., A. Boustany, and P. Halpin. Temporal patterns of target catch and sea turtle bycatch in the U.S. Atlantic pelagic longline fishing fleet. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. Submitted April 2009.
• Lewison, R.L. and L.B. Crowder. 2007. Putting Longline Bycatch of Sea Turtles into Perspective. Conservation Biology 21(1): 79–86.
• Lewison, R.L., C.U. Soykan, and J. Franklin. 2009. Mapping the bycatch seascape: multispecies and multi-scale spatial patterns of fisheries bycatch. Ecological Applications. 19(4):920–930.
• Lewison, R., S. Hooker, D. Hodgson, D. Agnew, D. Oro, C. Tisdell, H. Marsh, R. Wilson, B. Godley, S. Cooke, A. Cunningham, J. Matthiopoulos, C. Hammer, J. Seminoff (eds.). 2008. Fisheries bycatch: problems and solutions, ESR Theme Section. Endangered Species Research 5 (2-3).
• Lewison, R.L., D.C. Nel, F. Taylor, J.P. Croxall, and K.S. Rivera. 2005. Thinking big—taking a large-scale approach to seabird bycatch. Marine Ornithology 33: 1 1–5.
• McClusky, S.M. and R.L. Lewison. 2008. Quantifying fishing effort: a synthesis of current methods and their applications. Fish and Fisheries 9: 188-200
• Moore, J.E. and A.J. Read. 2008. A Bayesian uncertainty analysis of cetacean demography and bycatch mortality using age-at-death data. Ecological Applications 18(8): 1914–1931.
• Moore, J.E., B.P. Wallace, R.L. Lewison, R. Žydelis, T.M. Cox, and L.B. Crowder. 2008. A review of marine mammal,sea turtle, and seabird bycatch in USA fisheries and the role of policy in shaping management. Marine Policy doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2008.09.003.
• Moore, J.E. and R. Žydelis. 2008. Quantifying seabird bycatch: where do we go from here? Animal Conservation 11: 257-259.
• Moore, J.E., T.M. Cox, R.L. Lewison, A.J. Read, R. Bjorkland, S.L. McDonald, L.B. Crowder, E. Aruna, I. Ayissi, P. Espeut, C. Joynson-Hicks, N. Pilcher, C. Poonian, B. Solarin, and J. Kiszka. An interview-based approach for triaging marine mammal and sea turtle captures in artisanal fisheries. Biological Conservation. Submitted March 2009.
• Moore, J.E., R. Žydelis, C.U. Soykan, S.L. McDonald, R.L. Lewison, L.B. Crowder. submitted. Quantitative evaluation of fisheries bycatch risk for marine mammals and seabirds. Conservation Biology. Submitted May 2009.
• Peckham, S.H., D. Maldonado Diaz, A. Walli, G. Ruiz, L.B. Crowder, and W.J. Nichols. 2007. Small-scale fisheries bycatch jeopardizes endangered Pacific loggerhead turtles. PLoS One 2(10): e1041. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001041.
• Poonian, C.N.S., M.D. Hauzer, A.B. Allaoui, T.M. Cox, J.E. Moore, A.J. Read, R.L. Lewison, L.B. Crowder. 2009. Rapid assessment of sea turtle and marine mammal bycatch in the Union of the Comoros. Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Sciences.
• Project GloBAL. 2009. Workshop Proceedings - Tackling Fisheries Bycatch: Managing and reducing sea turtle bycatch in gillnets. Project GloBAL Technical Memorandum No. 1, 57pp.
• Read, A.J. 2008. The looming crisis: interactions between marine mammals and fisheries. Journal of Mammalogy 89(3):541-548.
• Read, A.J. 2007. Do circle hooks reduce the mortality of sea turtles in pelagic longlines? A review of recent experiments. Biological Conservation 135: 155-169.
• Read, A.J., P. Drinker, and S. Northridge. 2006. Bycatch of Marine Mammals in U.S. and Global Fisheries. Conservation Biology 20(1): 163–169.
• Sims, M., R. Bjorkland, P. Mason, and L.B. Crowder. 2008. Statistical power and sea turtle nesting beach surveys. How long and when? Biological Conservation 141: 2921-2931.
• Sims, M., T. Cox, and R. Lewison. 2008. Modeling spatial patterns in fisheries bycatch: Improving bycatch maps to aid fisheries management. Ecological Applications 18(3): 649-661.
• Soykan, C.U., J.E. Moore, R. Žydelis, L.B. Crowder, C. Safina, and R.L. Lewison. 2008. Why study bycatch?  Endangered Species Research 5: 91–102. doi: 10.3354/esr00175.
• Soykan, C.U. and R.L. Lewison. Community-Level Indicators for Ecosystem-Based Management. Submitted to Fish and Fisheries in July 2009.
• Wallace B.P., S.S. Heppell, R.L. Lewison, S. Kelez, and L.B. Crowder. 2008. Impact of fisheries bycatch on loggerhead turtles worldwide inferred from analyses of reproductive values. Journal of Applied Ecology 45: 1076–1085. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2008.01507.x.
• Zydelis, R., M Dagys, and G. Vaitkus.  2006. Beached bird surveys in Lithuania reflect marine oil pollution and bird mortality in fishing nets.  Marine Ornithology 34:  161-166.
• Zydelis, R., J. Bellebaum, H. Österblom, M. Vetemaad, B. Schirmeister, A. Stipniece, M. Dagys, M. Van Eerden, and S. Garthe. 2009. Bycatch in gillnet fisheries – an overlooked threat to waterbird populations. Biological Conservation 142:1269–1281.
• Zydelis, R., B.P. Wallace, E.L. Gilman, and T.B. Werner. 2009. Conservation of Marine Megafauna through Minimization of Fisheries Bycatch. Conservation Biology 23(3):608-616.