Towards sustainability in world fisheries
Pauly, D.; Christensen, V.; Guénette, S.; Pitcher, T.J.; Sumaila, U.R.; Walters, C.J.; Watson, R.; Zeller, D. (2002). Towards sustainability in world fisheries. Nature (Lond.) 418(6898): 689-695 In: Nature: International Weekly Journal of Science. Nature Publishing Group: London. ISSN 0028-0836; e-ISSN 1476-4687, more |  |
| Keywords | Management > Resource management > Fishery management
Yield > Potential yield
Marine/Coastal |
| Authors | | Top | - Pauly, D., more
- Christensen, V.
- Guénette, S.
- Pitcher, T.J.
| - Sumaila, U.R.
- Walters, C.J.
- Watson, R.
- Zeller, D.
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| Abstract | Fisheries have rarely been 'sustainable'. Rather, fishing has induced serial depletions, long masked by improved technology, geographic expansion and exploitation of previously spurned species lower in the food web. With global catches declining since the late 1980s, continuation of present trends will lead to supply shortfall, for which aquaculture cannot be expected to compensate, and may well exacerbate. Reducing fishing capacity to appropriate levels will require strong reductions of subsidies. Zoning the oceans into unfished marine reserves and areas with limited levels of fishing effort would allow sustainable fisheries, based on resources embedded in functional, diverse ecosystems. |
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