Small-scale fisheries can back food security efforts in Arabian Sea countries

Small-scale fisheries can back food security efforts in Arabian Sea countries

Iranian fishing boat in the Arabian Sea

Iranian fishing boat in the Arabian Sea. Public Domain image from US National Archives.

Countries surrounding the Arabian Sea should empower well-managed artisanal and subsistence fisheries to back food security efforts, a new Sea Around Us study suggests.

In a chapter titled “The fisheries of the Arabian Sea Large Marine Ecosystem,” included in the book The Arabian Seas: Biodiversity, Environmental Challenges and Conservation Measures published by Springer Nature, Sea Around Us researchers describe the fisheries in the exclusive economic zones of Somalia, Djibouti, Yemen, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Iran, Pakistan and India’s Malabar coast, as well as in the region’s high seas.

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Data from baited remote underwater video systems now available on FishBase

Data from baited remote underwater video systems now available on FishBase

Tiger shark BRUVs

Tiger shark. Photo courtesy of the Marine Futures Lab.

Data from baited remote underwater video systems (BRUVS) are now available on FishBase, the world’s online encyclopedia on fish.

As of April 2021, users accessing www.fishbase.org will be able to download BRUVS data when doing searches by species, family or country/island.

In detail, users can now obtain all records of any species of interest in terms of where they were observed across the samples, how many and how large. For some locations, time-series data are available on diversity, abundance, size and biomass. Continue reading →