Effective fisheries management instrumental in improving fish stock status
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Marine fish stocks are an important part of the world food system and are particularly important for many of the poorest people of the world. Most existing analyses suggest overfishing is increasing, and there is widespread concern that fish stocks are decreasing throughout most of the world. We assembled trends in abundance and harvest rate of stocks that are scientifically assessed, constituting half of the reported global marine fish catch. For these stocks, on average, abundance is increasing and is at proposed target levels. Compared with regions that are intensively managed, regions with less-developed fisheries management have, on average, 3-fold greater harvest rates and half the abundance as assessed stocks. Available evidence suggests that the regions without assessments of abundance have little fisheries management, and stocks are in poor shape. Increased application of area-appropriate fisheries science recommendations and management tools are still needed for sustaining fisheries in places where they are lacking.
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- Authors
- Hilborn, R., Amoroso, R. O., Anderson, C. M., Baum, J. K., Branch, T. A., Costello, C., de Moor, C. L., Faraj, A., Hively, D., Jensen, O. P., Kurota, H., Little, L. R., Mace, P., McClanahan, T., Melnychuk, M. C., Minto, C., Osio, G. C., Parma, A. M., Pons, M., Segurado, S., Szuwalski, C. S., Wilson, J. R., & Ye, Y.
- Affiliations
- University of Washington (US)
- University of Victoria (CA)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (US)
- Marine Resource Assessment and Management Group, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town, 7701 Rondebosch, South Africa;
- Institut National de Recherche Halieutique (MA)
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
- Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency (JP)
- CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere (AU)
- Ministry for Primary Industries (NZ)
- Wildlife Conservation Society (US)
- Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (IE)
- European Commission (BE)
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (AR)
- Systems Division, Sustainable Fisheries Partnership, Honolulu, HI 96816;
- The Nature Conservancy (US)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Hilborn, Ray
- ORCID
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2020-01-13
- Volume
- 117
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 2218-2224
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC6995010
- OpenAlex
- W2999917256
- Cited by
- 858
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 120 · 2025: 135 · 2024: 154 · 2023: 145 · 2022: 119 · 2021: 130 · 2020: 54 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 41.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Joint Research Centre (European Commission) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Conicet (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- The Nature Conservancy (SNP012)
- The Wildlife Conservation Society (SNP012)
- Walton Family Foundation (66-0966)
- Environmental Defense Fund (NA)
- 12 Fishing Companies (68-0019)
- Richard C and Lois M Worthington Endowed Professorship in Fisheries Management (65-2871)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Marine and fisheries research
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Coastal and Marine Management
- Keywords
- fisheries management, fish stock status, fish abundance, exploitation rate, overfishing, fish stock assessment, marine fish stocks, sustainable fisheries
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Conservation of Natural Resources, Fisheries, Fishes, Food Supply, Humans, Biomass
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