On Tuesday May 17th Daniel Pauly and Dirk Zeller from the Sea Around Us will conduct a webinar through OpenChannels.org to discuss catch reconstructions, their recent paper in Nature Communications, and upcoming projects.
Event Date: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 1pm US EDT / 10am US PDT / 5pm UTC
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How much fish are we really catching from the world’s oceans? Catch data are important in fisheries research, but the availability of reliable and comprehensive catch data is often taken for granted. In a large number of countries, reliable catch data are not available, and the catch data these countries submit to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) are incomplete and highly variable. Given the role of FAO in world fisheries, this means that many of the “big numbers” cited when talking or writing about global fisheries are erroneous. We present a “catch reconstruction” approach that we have applied to all maritime countries of the world to overcome this situation. (Read about this effort in the Nature Communications journal article “Catch reconstructions reveal that global marine fisheries catches are higher than reported and declining”.)
In this webinar, we will present our scientific approach, results from several countries illustrating the issues and problems, and the global results as presented in our recent paper. All materials and data for all maritime countries in the world (plus a wide variety of additional data and information items) are freely available for download at www.seaaroundus.org. We always welcome communications and feedback on our work and the data we present.
Webinar co-sponsored by MEAM, OpenChannels.org, and the EBM Tools Network.