A composite fishing index to support the monitoring and sustainable management of world fisheries
Overfishing has severe social, economic, and environmental ramifications. Eliminating global overfishing is one of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs require effective policy and progress monitoring. However, current indicators are issue-specific and cannot be utilize...
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description | Overfishing has severe social, economic, and environmental ramifications. Eliminating global overfishing is one of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs require effective policy and progress monitoring. However, current indicators are issue-specific and cannot be utilized to measure fisheries efficacy holistically. This study develops a comprehensive index that takes into account the inputs, outputs, and ecological implications of fisheries. These components are then merged to form a single composite fishing index that evaluates both total fishing pressure on the ecosystem and historical patterns. The global fishing intensity grew by a factor of eleven between 1950 and 2017, and geographical differences emerged. The fishing intensity of developed countries peaked in 1997 and has since fallen due to management, but developing countries’ fishing intensity has increased continuously over the whole research period, with quasi-linear growth after 1980. Africa has experienced the most rapid expansion in fishing activity and now has the highest fishing intensity. This index takes a more comprehensive and objective look at fisheries. Its worldwide spatial–temporal comparison enables the identification of similar temporal trends across countries or regions, as well as areas of uneven development and hotspot sites for targeted policy action. |
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spelling | pubmed-103107022023-07-01 A composite fishing index to support the monitoring and sustainable management of world fisheries Ye, Yimin Link, Jason S. Sci Rep Article Overfishing has severe social, economic, and environmental ramifications. Eliminating global overfishing is one of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs require effective policy and progress monitoring. However, current indicators are issue-specific and cannot be utilized to measure fisheries efficacy holistically. This study develops a comprehensive index that takes into account the inputs, outputs, and ecological implications of fisheries. These components are then merged to form a single composite fishing index that evaluates both total fishing pressure on the ecosystem and historical patterns. The global fishing intensity grew by a factor of eleven between 1950 and 2017, and geographical differences emerged. The fishing intensity of developed countries peaked in 1997 and has since fallen due to management, but developing countries’ fishing intensity has increased continuously over the whole research period, with quasi-linear growth after 1980. Africa has experienced the most rapid expansion in fishing activity and now has the highest fishing intensity. This index takes a more comprehensive and objective look at fisheries. Its worldwide spatial–temporal comparison enables the identification of similar temporal trends across countries or regions, as well as areas of uneven development and hotspot sites for targeted policy action. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10310702/ /pubmed/37386054 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37048-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2023, corrected publication 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Ye, Yimin Link, Jason S. A composite fishing index to support the monitoring and sustainable management of world fisheries |
title | A composite fishing index to support the monitoring and sustainable management of world fisheries |
title_full | A composite fishing index to support the monitoring and sustainable management of world fisheries |
title_fullStr | A composite fishing index to support the monitoring and sustainable management of world fisheries |
title_full_unstemmed | A composite fishing index to support the monitoring and sustainable management of world fisheries |
title_short | A composite fishing index to support the monitoring and sustainable management of world fisheries |
title_sort | composite fishing index to support the monitoring and sustainable management of world fisheries |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10310702/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37386054 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37048-6 |
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