Sustainability of deep-sea fisheries

Elliott A. Norse, Sandra Brooke, William W.L. Cheung, Malcolm R. Clark, Ivar Ekeland, Rainer Froese, Kristina M. Gjerde, Richard L. Haedrich, Selina S. Heppell, Telmo Morato, Lance E. Morgan, Daniel Pauly, Ussif Sumaila and Reg Watson

Marine Policy, 2012, vol. 36, issue 2, 307-320

Abstract: As coastal fisheries around the world have collapsed, industrial fishing has spread seaward and deeper in pursuit of the last economically attractive concentrations of fishable biomass. For a seafood-hungry world depending on the oceans' ecosystem services, it is crucial to know whether deep-sea fisheries can be sustainable.

Keywords: Sustainability; Deep-sea fisheries; Fishery collapse; Fisheries economics; Clark's law; High seas (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2011.06.008

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