Towards sustainability in world fisheries

Daniel Pauly (), Villy Christensen, Sylvie Guénette, Tony J. Pitcher, Ussif Sumaila, Carl J. Walters, R. Watson and Dirk Zeller
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Daniel Pauly: Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia
Villy Christensen: Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia
Sylvie Guénette: Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia
Tony J. Pitcher: Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia
Carl J. Walters: Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia
R. Watson: Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia
Dirk Zeller: Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia

Nature, 2002, vol. 418, issue 6898, 689-695

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2002
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