Advancing marine conservation
George, S. B., Böhm, M., & Vincent, A. C. (2023). New IUCN Species Survival Commission Marine Star Specialist Group. Oryx, 57(6), 689-689. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605323001229… Read more
Rodríguez, J. P., Sucre, B., Mileham, K., Sánchez-Mercado, A., De Andrade, N., Bezeng, S. B., … Vincent, A. & Xie, Y. (2022). Addressing the Biodiversity Paradox: Mismatch between the Co-occurrence of biological diversity and the human, financial and institutional resources to address its decline. Diversity, 14(9), 708. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14090708… Read more
Aylesworth, L., Foster, S.J., Friedman, K. & A.C.J. Vincent (2016). IUCN and FAO. Simple is good: moving toward pragmatic and effective monitoring to support CITES implementation for marine fishes and invertebrates on Appendix II (English | French | Spanish). Information Document for the 17th Meeting of the CITES Conference of the Parties. CoP17 Inf. 65. 7 pp.
Foster, S.J. & A.C.J. Vincent (2016). IUCN. Implementing Appendix II listings for marine fishes: important considerations when making non-detriment findings. (English | French | Spanish) Information Document for the 17th Meeting of the CITES Conference of the Parties. CoP17 Inf. 52. 10 pp.… Read more
Wei, J., Stiem, T. & R, Pollom (2015). iSeahorse: seahorse conservation through citizen science. Reef Encounter, 30, 40-42… Read more
Correia, M. (2014). Trends in seahorse abundance in the Ria Formosa, South Portugal: recent scenario and future prospects. Doctoral dissertation, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal.
Stiem, T., Vincent, A.C.J. & H. Koldewey (2012). Saving seahorses means saving our seas. WAZA News 1/12:5-7. https://bit.ly/35XjSuZ… Read more
MY Darwin Initiative grant, for Conservation biology of seahorses and pipefishes (1994-1996), has made a global conservation impact. Darwin funding allowed me to launch conservation field-work with colleagues in Vietnam and the Philippines. In collaboration with communities, we looked at the biology of seahorses and pipefishes, the ecological and socioeconomic importance of their exploitation, and …
Sea moths (family Pegasidae) are little-studied benthic fish, found throughout the Indo-Pacific. Two species of sea moths, Pegasus volitans and Eurypegasus draconis, are caught incidentally in illegal trawl gear in the Philippines and sold into the dried fish trade. Approximately 130,000–620,000 P. volitans and 130,000 E. draconis were landed off north-western Bohol alone in 1996. An additional 43,000–62,000 sea moths (predominantly P. volitans) …