ReviewiScience2024
A global meta-analysis of gillnet bycatch of toothed whales: Mitigation measures and research gaps.
Review in iScience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed.
- Assessing fishery interaction on cetaceans stranded along the Italian coastline between 1986 and 2023.PloS one · 2025Article
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Odontocetes are globally distributed and are foundational to the structure and function of marine food webs, and hence bycatch impacts from gillnet fishing need to be considered in the context of their conservation and population viability. Currently, global gillnet bycatch numbers are unknown yet are estimated to be the greatest in Asia, East Africa, and the west coasts of North and South America. Here we provide the first global meta-analyses of small- and large-scale gillnet bycatch estimates of odontocetes during 1990-2020, compiling population size, estimated gillnet bycatch, and conservation status in support of geographical and species-specific risk estimates. We estimate that annual gillnet bycatch is ∼50,000 from 1990 to 2020, and, combined with overfishing, pollution, and noise, it has been shown to be a serious threat to these long-lived and slow-reproducing species with heavy offspring investment. The global gillnet bycatch of odontocetes is a difficult challenge to address and mitigate and requires improved species and regional-based management strategies including collaborations between fishers, fisheries managers, marine mammal experts, and marine spatial planners. This has been worked on for decades, yet more attention is needed for successful management of odontocete gillnet bycatch to ensure their sustainable future in the Anthropocene Ocean, in accordance with local subsistence dynamics and the relevant United Nations (UN) sustainable development goals.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.