Not all fisheries will be collapsed in 2048

✍ Scribed by Trevor A. Branch

• Book ID: 104043702
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 98 KB
• Volume: 32
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0308-597X
• DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2007.04.001

✦ Synopsis

In a recently published paper, Worm et al. [Impacts of biodiversity loss on ocean ecosystem services. Science 2006;314:787-90.] project ''the global collapse of all taxa currently fished'' by 2048. Using their criteria and data, this paper shows that the number of not-collapsed fisheries actually increased over time to a plateau of about 5600 in 1985-2003. Furthermore, if trends are projected into the future, more than half of the world's fisheries would always be in a recovered state.