Selected Publications

2026

Hanna, C., Terzić, K., James, M. and Spencer, K. (2026). IoMB: Evaluating Object Detectors on Occluded and Imbalanced Seabird Populations. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, SciTePress, 2: 518-525. DOI: 10.5220/0014641900004084

Mendo, T., Mujal-Colilles, A., Hjorleifsson, E., Lattanzi, P., Marsaglia, L., James, M., Rufino, M. M., Holah, H., Tully, O., Rodriguez-Gutierrez, J., Jonsson, P., Mugerza, E., Egekvist, J., Emery, T., Ladd-Jones, H., Course, G., Rodriguez, J., Mateo, M., von Dorrien, C. & Carvalho, A. N., Tassetti, A. N. and Salvany, L. (2026). Towards a European small-scale fishing vessel tracking programme: overview, challenges and opportunities. Marine Policy, 190: 107139. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2026.107139

2025

Hague, R. A. C., Rimmer, J. E. V. and James, M. A. (2025). Assessing the effects of a 660 nm diode laser on crustacean eyes. PLoS One, 20: e0317706. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0317706

Harlow, L., Ovchinnikova, K. and James, M. (2025). Neural network-based identification for scallops (Pecten maximus) in natural marine habitats. PLoS One, 20: e0327824. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0327824

2024

Mendo, T., Mujal-Colilles, A., Stounberg, J., Glemarec, G., Egekvist, J., Mugerza, E., Rufino, M., Swift, R. and James, M. A. (2024). A workflow for standardizing the analysis of highly resolved vessel tracking data. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 81: 390–401. DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsad209

Mendo, T., Ransijn, J., Durbach, I., Gibson, T., James, M., Swift, R. and Muench, A. (2024). Identifying the recent spatial distribution of fishing activities in the UK EEZ – a report on methods used. Report produced for The Crown Estate, OWEC funded project: FiSMaDiM, 11 pages. DOI: 10.14465/2024.OWEC.003

2023

Mendo, T., Glemarec, G., Mendo, J., Hjorleifsson, E., Smout, S., Northridge, S., Rodriguez, J., Mujal-Colilles, A. and James, M., (2023). Estimating fishing effort from highly resolved geospatial data: focusing on passive gears. Ecological Indicators, 154: 110822. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110822

Spoors, F., James, M. A., Mendo, T., McKnight, J.C., Bønnelycke, E-M.S. and Khan, N. (2023). Investigating clove oil and its derivatives as anaesthetic agents for decapod crustaceans to improve welfare commercially and at slaughter. Frontiers in Animal Science, 4: 1180977. DOI: 10.3389/fanim.2023.1180977

Mendo, T., Ransijn, J., Gomez, I., Gozzer-Wuest, R., Paradinas, I., James, M. A. and Mendo, J. (2023). Minimising discards while taking revenue into account: spatio-temporal assessment of catches in an artisanal shrimp trawl fishery in Peru. Fisheries Research, 261: 106623. DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2023.106623

James, M. A., Gozzer-Wuest, R., Mendo, T., Gomez, I., Grillo-Núñez, J. and Mendo, J. (2023). To ignore or mitigate – economic implications of an illegal artisanal trawl fishery in northern Peru. Marine Policy. 158: 105865. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105865

2022

Mendo, T., Mendo, J., Ransijn, J., Gomez, I., Gil-Kodaka, P., Fernández, J., Delgado, R., Travezaño, M., Arroyo, R., Loza, K., McCann, P., Crowe, S., Jones, E. and James, M. A. (2022). Assessing discards in an illegal small-scale fishery using fisher-led reporting. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 32: 963-974. DOI: 10.1007/s11160-022-09708-9

Mendo, J., Mendo, T., Gil-Kodaka, P., Martina, J., Gómez, I., Delgado, R., Fernández, J., Travezaño, A., Arroyo, R., Loza, K. and James, M. A. (2022). Bycatch and discards in the artisanal shrimp trawl fishery in Northern Peru. PLoS One, 17: e0268128. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268128

Mujal-Colilles, A., Mendo, T., Swift, R., James, M., Crowe, S. and McCann, P. (2022). Low-cost tracking system to infer fishing activity from small scale fisheries in Scotland. Trends in maritime technology and engineering: proceedings of the 6th international conference on maritime technology and engineering (Martech 2022, Lisbon, Portugal, 24–26 May 2022). Soares, C. G. & Santos, T. A. (eds.). Taylor & Francis Group/CRC Press, p. 129-134 6 p. (Proceedings in marine technology and ocean engineering; vol. 2). DOI: 10.1201/9781003320289-14

Spoors, F., Leakey, C. D. B. and James, M. A. (2022). Piloting a Regional Scale Ocean Literacy Survey in Fife. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9: 858937. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.858937

2021

Spoors, F., Mendo, T., Khan, N. & James, M. (2021). Assessing bait use by static gear fishers of the Scottish Inshore fisheries: a preliminary study. Fisheries Research, 240: 105974. DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2021.105974

Ovchinnikova, K., James, M. A., Mendo, T., Dawkins, M., Crall, J. and Boswarva, K. (2021). Exploring the potential to use low cost imaging and an open source convolutional neural network detector to support stock assessment of the king scallop (Pecten maximus). Ecological Informatics, 62: 101233. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101233

Mouat, B., Bergh, M., Shelmerdine, R. L., Leach, K., Ladd-Jones, H. (Editor) and James, M. A. (Editor). (2021). Scottish Inshore Fisheries Integrated Data System (SIFIDS): Work package 1 final report: Review and optimisation of shellfish data collection strategies for Scottish inshore waters. Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS). DOI: 10.15664/10023.23379

2019

Mendo, T., Smout, S., Russo, T., D’Andrea, L., James, M. and Maravelias, C. (2019) Effect of temporal and spatial resolution on identification of fishing activities in small-scale fisheries using pots and traps. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 76: 1601-1609. DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsz073

Mendo, T., Smout, S. C., Photopoulou, T. and James, M. (2019) Identifying fishing grounds from vessel tracks: model-based inference for small scale fisheries. Royal Society Open Science, 6: 191161. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.191161

James, M. A., Mendo, T., Ladd-Jones, H., McCann, P., Crowe, S., Coram, A. J. and Northridge, S. (2019). Scottish Inshore Fisheries Integrated Data System (SIFIDS): SIFIDS Work Package 5 final report: Identifying fishing activities and their associated drivers. Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS). DOI: 10.15664/10023.23451

Mendo, T., Smout, S. C., Ransijn, J. M., Durbach, I. N., McCann, P., Crowe, S., Carulla Fàbrega, A., de Prado, I., Ladd-Jones, H. (Editor) and James, M. A. (2019). Scottish Inshore Fisheries Integrated Data System (SIFIDS): SIFIDS Work Package 8b final report: Identifying fishing activities and their associated drivers. Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS). DOI: 10.15664/10023.23463

2018

James, M., Mendo, T., Jones, E. L., Orr, K., Mcknight, A. and Thompson, J. (2018). AIS data to inform small scale fisheries management and marine spatial planning. Marine Policy, 91: 113-121. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2018.02.012