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Global fisheries science documents human impacts on oceans: The Sea Around Us serves civil society in the Twenty-First Century
Zeller, D.; Palomares, M.L.D.; Pauly, D. (2023). Global fisheries science documents human impacts on oceans: The Sea Around Us serves civil society in the Twenty-First Century. Ann. Rev. Mar. Sci. 15(1): 147-165. https://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-030322-113814
In: Annual Review of Marine Science. Annual Reviews: Palo Alto, Calif. ISSN 1941-1405; e-ISSN 1941-0611, more
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Keyword
    Marine/Coastal
Author keywords
    artisanal fisheries, subsistence fisheries, data science, global studies, large-scale fisheries, marine ecosystems, open data

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  • Zeller, D.
  • Palomares, M.L.D.
  • Pauly, D., more

Abstract
    Fishing provides the world with an important component of its food supply, but it also negatively impacts the biodiversity of marine and freshwater ecosystems, especially when industrial fishing is involved. To mitigate these impacts, civil society needs access to fisheries data (i.e., catches and catch-derived indicators of these impacts). Such data, however, must be more comprehensive than the official fisheries statistics supplied to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) by its member countries, which shape public policy in spite of their deficiencies, notably underestimating small-scale fisheries. This article documents the creation, based on the geographically coarse FAO data, of a database and website (https://www.seaaroundus.org) that provides free reconstructed (i.e., corrected) catch data by ecosystem, country, species, gear type, commercial value, etc., to any interested person, along with catch-derived indicators from 1950 to the near present for the entire world.

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