When large marine predators feed on fisheries catches: Global patterns of the depredation conflict and directions for coexistence

• Published in: Fish and fisheries (Oxford, England) Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 31 - 53
• Main Authors: Tixier, Paul, Lea, Mary‐Anne, Hindell, Mark A., Welsford, Dirk, Mazé, Camille, Gourguet, Sophie, Arnould, John P. Y.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.01.2021; Wiley-Blackwell
• Subjects: Adaptation; bycatch; Chondrichthyes; Coexistence; collaborative management; Conflicts; Dimensions; Economics; Environmental Sciences; Fisheries; fisheries interactions; Fishers; Fishing; Human-wildlife relations; human–wildlife conflicts; Marine fisheries; Marine fishes; Marine mammals; Mitigation; Odontoceti; Pinnipedia; predation; Predators; Sharks; socioeconomics; socio‐ecosystem sustainability; traditional technology; Wildlife; Wildlife conservation; Wildlife management; human–wildlife conflicts; mitigation; sharks; fisheries interactions; marine mammals; socioecosystem sustainability

The sustainable mitigation of human–wildlife conflicts has become a major societal and environmental challenge globally. Among these conflicts, large marine predators feeding on fisheries catches, a behaviour termed “depredation,” has emerged concomitantly with the expansion of the world’s fisheries...