Daniel Pauly (left) and Johannes Müller (right).
In a world where the dramatic effects of global warming on land dominate news headlines, there is a tendency to overlook the massive impacts of warming and deoxygenation on oceans and freshwater ecosystems. However, the effects of climate change on the species that inhabit these ecosystems are, in some respects, more drastic than the challenges faced by terrestrial animals.
Purse seine. Photo by Hüseyin Ergül, Pexels.
The global fishing industry should be appropriately represented within climate change mitigation frameworks, where it remains overlooked, a new letter published in Science suggests.
Caribbean spiny lobster. Photo by James St. John, Wikimedia Commons.
Most of The Bahamas’ signature seafood stocks are being fished harder than the sea can replace them, a new paper led by Sea Around Us researchers and published in Frontiers in Marine Science shows.
Bottom trawler. Photo by Lisa, Flickr.
A new study suggests the hidden climate costs of bottom trawling in European waters may far outweigh its economic benefits, raising questions about the future of one of the world’s most widespread fishing practices.
Fishing net. Photo by Bicanski, Pixnio.
If humanity wants to continue to derive healthy nutrition from wild-caught fish – as 40 per cent of the global population currently does – it is crucial that fisheries managers and marine conservationists start using the same metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of both sustainable fisheries measures and the establishment of marine protected areas.