Coastal and Marine Management

Coastal management challenges in declining clam fisheries: insights from local ecological knowledge in Spain

The paper examines challenges in Spanish clam fisheries through interviews, identifying ecological pressures and governance issues but noting limitations in causal inference.

A sea full of measures: EU conservation goals for benthic habitats will require wide-ranging spatial measures

This study evaluates how EU conservation goals for benthic habitats in German North Sea waters can be met through spatial measures, finding current efforts insufficient and suggesting expansion of trawling bans.

Current and future relevance of marine spatial planning for the distribution of epibenthic invertebrate and fish species in a heavily used regional sea

The paper models the spatial distribution of marine species in the southern North Sea to inform marine spatial planning under current and future climate scenarios.

Global connectivity and networks of marine reserves

The paper identifies ecologically connected marine reserve networks and evaluates their socio-economic characteristics, finding that some networks span multiple countries with diverse economic and cultural backgrounds.