Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Nature Communications
Publication Year:
2016
Publication Place
UNKNOWN
Physical Description:
9p. : 29cm.
Call Number
[EL]
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
40215
Legacy PEIN ID:
80268
General Notes
Online only
Available online
Subject Heading(s)
Fisheries - Fish catch numbers - Global
Bycatch - Problematic fisheries
Legal & illegal fisheries - Fish catches
Abstract
Fisheries data assembled by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) suggest that global marine fisheries catches increased to 86 million tonnes in 1996, then slightly declined. Here, using a decade-long multinational catch reconstruction project covering the Exclusive Economic Zones of the worlds maritime countries and the High Seas from 1950 to 2010, and accounting for all fisheries, we identify catch trajectories differing considerably from the national data submitted to the FAO. We suggest that catch actually peaked at 130 million tonnes, and has been declining much more strongly since. This decline in reconstructed catches reflects declines in industrial catches and to a smaller extent declining discards, despite industrial fishing having expanded from industrialized countries to the waters of developing countries. The differing trajectories documented here suggest a need for improved monitoring of all fisheries, including often neglected small-scale fisheries, and illegal and other problematic fisheries, as well as discarded bycatch.
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Nature Communications
Publication Year:
2016
Publication Place
UNKNOWN
Physical Description:
9p. : 29cm.
Call Number
[EL]
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
40215
Legacy PEIN ID:
80268
General Notes
Online only
Record Created: 28-Jan-2016
Record Modified: 17-Dec-2020