FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Fishing behaviours and fisher effect in decision‐making processes when facing depredation by marine predators BT AF Janc, Anaïs Guinet, Christophe Pinaud, David Richard, Gaetan Monestiez, Pascal Tixier, Paul AS 1:1;2:1;3:1;4:2;5:3;6:4,5; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:; C1 Centre d’Études Biologiques de Chizé (CEBC) UMR 7372 – CNRS and La Rochelle Université Villiers‐en‐Bois, France Lab‐STICC UMR 6285 ENSTA Bretagne Brest Cedex 9, France Biostatistiques et Processus spatiaux (BioSP) INRAE Avignon, France School of Life and Environmental Sciences (Burwood Campus) Deakin University Burwood Vic., Australia MARBEC Université de Montpellier‐CNRS‐IFREMER‐IRD Sète, France C2 UNIV LA ROCHELLE, FRANCE ENSTA BRETAGNE, FRANCE INRAE, FRANCE UNIV DEAKIN, AUSTRALIA UNIV MONTPELLIER, FRANCE UM MARBEC IN WOS Cotutelle UMR copubli-france copubli-univ-france copubli-int-hors-europe IF 2.088 TC 12 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00700/81196/86745.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;experience;individual perceptions;optimal foraging theory;skipper behaviour;sustainability of fish stocks;whale-fisheries interactions AB Fishers aim to optimise cost–benefit ratios of their behaviour when exploiting resources. Avoidance of interactions with marine predators (i.e. their feeding on catches in fishing gear, known as depredation) has recently become an important component of their decisions. How fishers minimise these interactions whilst maximising fishing success is poorly understood. This issue is addressed in a sub-Antarctic, long-line fishery confronted with extensive depredation by sperm whales Physeter macrocephalus and killer whales Orcinus orca by examining a 15-year data set. Whereas a broad range of behaviours was identified from spatio-temporal and operational descriptors, none combined high fishing success with low frequency of interactions. With experience, fishers favoured exploitation of productive patches with high frequencies of interactions over avoidance behaviours. Such decisions, although potentially optimal in the short term, are likely to intensify pressures on fish stocks and impact depredating whales. Therefore, the present study provides additional evidence to inform management decisions pertaining to the coexistence between fisheries and marine predators. PY 2021 PD DEC SO Fisheries Management And Ecology SN 0969-997X PU Wiley VL 28 IS 6 UT 000663427100001 BP 528 EP 541 DI 10.1111/fme.12503 ID 81196 ER EF