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  1. A database of mapped global fishing activity 1950–2017

    Article • Scientific Data, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  2. Trade and foreign fishing mediate global marine nutrient supply

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Kirsty L Nash, Professor Reg Alan Watson

  3. Global fishing and seafood trade burdens places with ineffective fisheries management

    Article • June 2021, Research Square

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  4. Sharing the seas: a review and analysis of ocean sector interactions

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, June 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  5. Residual marine protected areas five years on: Are we still favouring ease of establishment over need for protection?

    Article • Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, September 2020, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  6. Comparative production of fisheries yields and ecosystem overfishing in African Large Marine Ecosystems

    Article • Environmental Development, April 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  7. Defining global artisanal fisheries

    Article • Marine Policy, October 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  8. Rethinking spatial costs and benefits of fisheries in marine conservation

    Article • Ocean & Coastal Management, August 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  9. Global ecosystem overfishing: Clear delineation within real limits to production

    Article • Science Advances, June 2019, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  10. Evolution of global marine fishing fleets and the response of fished resources

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  11. Food production shocks across land and sea

    Article • Nature Sustainability, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  12. Progress in integrating natural and social science in marine ecosystem-based management research

    Article • Marine and Freshwater Research, January 2019, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr Karen A Alexander, Joanna Vince, Professor Reg Alan Watson

  13. Global Change and Future Earth

    Article • October 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  14. Predicting global tuna vulnerabilities with spatial, economic, biological and climatic considerations

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  15. Mapping nearly a century and a half of global marine fishing: 1869–2015

    Article • Marine Policy, July 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  16. Mapping nearly a century and a half of global marine fisheries: 1869 to 2015

    Article • May 2018, Center for Open Science

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  17. Fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions of world fisheries

    Article • Nature Climate Change, April 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  18. Global patterns in marine predatory fish

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, November 2017, Nature

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  19. Planetary boundaries for a blue planet

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, October 2017, Nature

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  20. Considering land-sea interactions and trade-offs for food and biodiversity

    Article • Global Change Biology, September 2017, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  21. Understanding what new data about fisheries tells us about marine ecosystems.

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2017, Nature

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  22. Fish hotspots in Western Australian waters

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, August 2017, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson, Dr Phil J Bouchet

  23. Linked sustainability challenges and trade-offs among fisheries, aquaculture and agriculture

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, August 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Reg Alan Watson, Dr Nicholas K Dulvy

  24. Corrigendum

    Article • Fish and Fisheries, July 2017, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  25. Widely used marine seismic survey air gun operations negatively impact zooplankton

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, June 2017, Nature

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

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

    Article • Scientific Data, April 2017, Nature

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  27. Drivers of fuel use in rock lobster fisheries

    Article • ICES Journal of Marine Science, March 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  28. Reconciling fisheries catch and ocean productivity

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  29. Domestic or imported? An assessment of carbon footprints and sustainability of seafood consumed in Australia

    Article • Environmental Science & Policy, December 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  30. Plenty more fish in the sea?

    Article • Fish and Fisheries, September 2015, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  31. Provenance of global seafood

    Article • Fish and Fisheries, September 2015, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  32. Species traits and climate velocity explain geographic range shifts in an ocean-warming hotspot

    Article • Ecology Letters, July 2015, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  33. Marine foods sourced from farther as their use of global ocean primary production increases

    Article • Nature Communications, June 2015, Nature

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  34. Fishing access agreements and harvesting decisions of host and distant water fishing nations

    Article • Marine Policy, April 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  35. Winners and losers in a world where the high seas is closed to fishing

    Article • Scientific Reports, February 2015, Nature

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  36. The global ocean is an ecosystem: simulating marine life and fisheries

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, February 2015, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  37. Life cycle assessment of wild capture prawns: expanding sustainability considerations in the Australian Northern Prawn Fishery

    Article • Journal of Cleaner Production, January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  38. Environmental and economic dimensions of fuel use in Australian fisheries

    Article • Journal of Cleaner Production, January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  39. Where the waters meet: sharing ideas and experiences between inland and marine realms to promote sustainable fisheries management

    Article • Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, October 2014, Canadian Science Publishing

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  40. Is fisheries production within Large Marine Ecosystems determined by bottom-up or top-down forcing?

    Article • Fish and Fisheries, May 2014, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  41. Defining and observing stages of climate-mediated range shifts in marine systems

    Article • Global Environmental Change, May 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson, Dr Nicholas K Dulvy

  42. Reinventing residual reserves in the sea: are we favouring ease of establishment over need for protection?

    Article • Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, February 2014, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  43. Tropical Marginal Seas: Priority Regions for Managing Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function

    Article • Annual Review of Marine Science, January 2014, Annual Reviews

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  44. Energy prices and seafood security

    Article • Global Environmental Change, January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  45. Global reductions in seafloor biomass in response to climate change

    Article • Global Change Biology, December 2013, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  46. Exploring Patterns of Seafood Provision Revealed in the Global Ocean Health Index

    Article • AMBIO, November 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  47. The changing face of global fisheries—The 1950s vs. the 2000s

    Article • Marine Policy, November 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  48. Ecosystem model of Tasmanian waters explores impacts of climate-change induced changes in primary productivity

    Article • Ecological Modelling, August 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  49. Response to removing biases in forecasts of fishery status

    Article • Journal of Bioeconomics, June 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  50. Signature of ocean warming in global fisheries catch

    Article • Nature, May 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  51. China's distant-water fisheries in the 21st century

    Article • Fish and Fisheries, March 2013, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  52. Coastal catch transects as a tool for studying global fisheries

    Article • Fish and Fisheries, February 2013, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  53. Fishing down the deep: Accounting for within-species changes in depth of fishing

    Article • Fisheries Research, February 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  54. Primary productivity demands of global fishing fleets

    Article • Fish and Fisheries, January 2013, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  55. Global Ex-vessel Fish Price Database Revisited: A New Approach for Estimating ‘Missing’ Prices

    Article • Environmental and Resource Economics, October 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  56. Shrinking of fishes exacerbates impacts of global ocean changes on marine ecosystems

    Article • Nature Climate Change, September 2012, Nature

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  57. The global contribution of forage fish to marine fisheries and ecosystems

    Article • Fish and Fisheries, September 2012, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  58. Benefits of Rebuilding Global Marine Fisheries Outweigh Costs

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2012, PLOS

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  59. Global marine yield halved as fishing intensity redoubles

    Article • Fish and Fisheries, June 2012, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  60. Global fisheries losses at the exclusive economic zone level, 1950 to present

    Article • Marine Policy, March 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  61. Sustainability of deep-sea fisheries

    Article • Marine Policy, March 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  62. Impact of the Deepwater Horizon well blowout on the economics of US Gulf fisheries

    Article • Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, March 2012, Canadian Science Publishing

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  63. Comparison of Marine Spatial Planning Methods in Madagascar Demonstrates Value of Alternative Approaches

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2012, PLOS

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  64. Modelling the effects of fishing on the biomass of the world’s oceans from 1950 to 2006

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, December 2011, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  65. Construction and first applications of a global cost of fishing database

    Article • ICES Journal of Marine Science, August 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  66. Potential Impact of theDeepwater HorizonOil Spill on Commercial Fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico

    Article • Fisheries, July 2011, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  67. The Mediterranean Sea under siege: spatial overlap between marine biodiversity, cumulative threats and marine reserves

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, July 2011, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  68. High Value and Long Life--Double Jeopardy for Tunas and Billfishes

    Article • Science, July 2011, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  69. Protected and Threatened Components of Fish Biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea

    Article • Current Biology, June 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  70. Management Effectiveness of the World’s Marine Fisheries

    Article • April 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  71. Rapid Global Expansion of Invertebrate Fisheries: Trends, Drivers, and Ecosystem Effects

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2011, PLOS

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  72. Global fishing effort (1950–2010): Trends, gaps, and implications

    Article • Fisheries Research, January 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  73. Serial exploitation of global sea cucumber fisheries

    Article • Fish and Fisheries, December 2010, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  74. The Spatial Expansion and Ecological Footprint of Fisheries (1950 to Present)

    Article • PLoS ONE, December 2010, PLOS

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  75. Sourcing seafood for the three major markets: The EU, Japan and the USA

    Article • Marine Policy, November 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  76. The trophic fingerprint of marine fisheries

    Article • Nature, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  77. The contribution of cephalopods to global marine fisheries: can we have our squid and eat them too?

    Article • Fish and Fisheries, October 2010, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  78. A bottom-up re-estimation of global fisheries subsidies

    Article • Journal of Bioeconomics, August 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  79. Food security implications of global marine catch losses due to overfishing

    Article • Journal of Bioeconomics, August 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  80. Global fishery development patterns are driven by profit but not trophic level

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2010, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  81. Aggregate performance in managing marine ecosystems of 53 maritime countries

    Article • Marine Policy, May 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  82. Subsidies to high seas bottom trawl fleets and the sustainability of deep-sea demersal fish stocks

    Article • Marine Policy, May 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  83. Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines

    Article • Science, April 2010, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Alessandro Galli, Professor Reg Alan Watson

  84. Global marine primary production constrains fisheries catches

    Article • Ecology Letters, April 2010, Wiley

    Dr Nicholas K Dulvy, Professor Reg Alan Watson

  85. Effects of climate-driven primary production change on marine food webs: implications for fisheries and conservation

    Article • Global Change Biology, April 2010, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  86. Seamount Fisheries: Do They Have a Future?

    Article • Oceanography, March 2010, The Oceanography Society

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  87. Large-scale redistribution of maximum fisheries catch potential in the global ocean under climate change

    Article • Global Change Biology, January 2010, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  88. Projecting global marine biodiversity impacts under climate change scenarios

    Article • Fish and Fisheries, September 2009, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  89. Database-driven models of the world's Large Marine Ecosystems

    Article • Ecological Modelling, September 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  90. Rebuilding Global Fisheries

    Article • Science, July 2009, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  91. Management Effectiveness of the World's Marine Fisheries

    Article • PLoS Biology, June 2009, PLOS

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  92. Estimating the Worldwide Extent of Illegal Fishing

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2009, PLOS

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  93. Response to Comment on "A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems"

    Article • Science, September 2008, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  94. Application of macroecological theory to predict effects of climate change on global fisheries potential

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, August 2008, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  95. Fuel price increase, subsidies, overcapacity, and resource sustainability

    Article • ICES Journal of Marine Science, April 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  96. A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems

    Article • Science, February 2008, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  97. The debt of nations and the distribution of ecological impacts from human activities

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2008, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Reg Alan Watson, Dr. Adam B. Smith

  98. Potential costs and benefits of marine reserves in the high seas

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, September 2007, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  99. Modelling and mapping resource overlap between seabirds and fisheries on a global scale: a preliminary assessment

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, August 2007, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  100. A Global Ex-vessel Fish Price Database: Construction and Applications

    Article • Journal of Bioeconomics, June 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  101. Intrinsic vulnerability in the global fish catch

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, March 2007, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  102. Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services

    Article • Science, November 2006, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  103. Mapping world-wide distributions of marine mammal species using a relative environmental suitability (RES) model

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, July 2006, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  104. Fishing gear associated with global marine catches

    Article • Fisheries Research, June 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  105. Fishing gear associated with global marine catches

    Article • Fisheries Research, June 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  106. Fishing down the deep

    Article • Fish and Fisheries, March 2006, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  107. Bioeconomic modelling and risk assessment of tiger prawn (Penaeus esculentus) stock enhancement in Exmouth Gulf, Australia

    Article • Fisheries Research, June 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  108. Catching some needed attention

    Article • Marine Policy, May 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  109. Background and interpretation of the 'Marine Trophic Index' as a measure of biodiversity

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2005, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  110. Global trends in world fisheries: impacts on marine ecosystems and food security

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 2005, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  111. Fueling Global Fishing Fleets

    Article • AMBIO, January 2005, American Bryological and Lichenological Society

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  112. Mapping global fisheries: sharpening our focus

    Article • Fish and Fisheries, June 2004, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  113. The Future for Fisheries

    Article • Science, November 2003, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  114. Counting the Last Fish

    Article • Scientific American, July 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  115. Hundred-year decline of North Atlantic predatory fishes

    Article • Fish and Fisheries, March 2003, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  116. Estimating illegal and unreported catches from marine ecosystems: a basis for change

    Article • Fish and Fisheries, December 2002, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  117. Towards sustainability in world fisheries

    Article • Nature, August 2002, Nature

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  118. Systematic distortions in world fisheries catch trends

    Article • Nature, November 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  119. Fisheries globalization: fair trade or piracy?

    Article • January 2001, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  120. A dynamic mass-balance model for marine protected areas

    Article • Fish and Fisheries, March 2000, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  121. Uncertainty and risk associated with optimised fishing patterns in a tropical penaeid fishery

    Article • Environment International, September 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  122. Performance of transect and point count underwater visual census methods

    Article • Ecological Modelling, December 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  123. Bias introduced by the non-random movement of fish in visual transect surveys

    Article • Ecological Modelling, February 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  124. Migration and growth of two tropical penaeid shrimps within Torres Strait, northern Australia

    Article • Fisheries Research, August 1993, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  125. Closed Seasons and Tropical Penaeid Fisheries: A Simulation Including Fleet Dynamics and Uncertainty

    Article • North American Journal of Fisheries Management, May 1993, Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  126. A per-recruit simulation model for evaluating spatial closures in an Australian penaeid fishery

    Article • Aquatic Living Resources, July 1992, EDP Sciences

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  127. Sledges for daytime sampling of juvenile penaeid shrimp

    Article • Fisheries Research, June 1992, Elsevier

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  128. Catches from World Seamount Fisheries

    Article • Wiley

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  129. IV.10 Spatial Dynamics of Marine Fisheries

    Article • De Gruyter

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  130. Global fisheries economic analysis

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Reg Alan Watson

  131. Ecological geography as a framework for a transition toward responsible fishing.

    Article • CABI Publishing

    Professor Reg Alan Watson