Strengthening European Union fisheries by removing harmful subsidies   Villasante, S. et al. (2022). Marine Policy.   Abstract   Harmful fisheries subsidies have historically contributed to fleet overcapacity and continue to be allocated to the fishing industry to artificially maintain its profitability. However, in this contribution we show that removing harmful subsidies...

Social–ecological shifts, traps and collapses in small–scale fisheries: Envisioning a way forward to transformative changes   Villasante, S. et al. (2022). Marine Policy   Abstract   Small-scale fisheries (SSF) are critical to food systems and livelihoods. However, the relation between fisheries resilience, outcomes of proximate and distal drivers and the potential...

Scientific Report of the ICES Working Group on Resilience and Marine Ecosystem Services (WGRMES)   Villasante, S. et al. (2021).   Get the document (PDF) in this link.   Executive summary   The Working Group on Resilience and Marine Ecosystem Services (WGRMES) aims to improve scientific understanding and capacity to design data collection...

BluEscola: unidad didáctica para la biodiversidad y servicios ecosistémicos marinos en las Islas Atlánticas   Tubío, A. et al. (including Pita, P., Villasante, S.) (2021). BluEscola: unidad didáctica para la biodiversidad y servicios ecosistémicos marinos en las Islas Atlánticas. Technical Report.   Get the document in this link.   Abstract   Se plantea...

A State–of–the–Art Review of Marine Ecosystem Services in the Rías Baixas Natura 2000 Network (Galicia, NW Spain)   Tubío, A. et al. (including Pita, P., Villasante, S.) (2021).  Frontiers in Marine Science   Abstract   Humans are deeply connected to the oceans, who provide us vital ecosystem services (ES) (climate regulation,...

WTO must ban harmful fisheries subsidies   Sumaila, R. et al. (including Villasante, S.) (2021). Science     Sustainably managed wild fisheries support food and nutritional security, livelihoods, and cultures. Harmful fisheries subsidies—government payments that incentivize overcapacity and lead to overfishing—undermine these benefits yet are increasing globally. World Trade Organization (WTO)...