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Fish stocks are not declining everywhere, contrary to pop belief (design & planning)

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http://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2020...does-work/

INTRO: Fisheries management around the world is working, increasing ecosystem abundance and safeguarding harvests for the future, across huge swathes of global ocean. This piece of good news comes from a new PNAS study, and it’s giving researchers cause for optimism, because until now there’s been a dominant belief that fish stocks are declining in most parts of the planet’s oceans. The comprehensive new paper points out that while overfishing continues to be a major concern, it certainly doesn’t describe the case everywhere.

Instead, the study showed that wherever fisheries are being scientifically monitored, there has actually been an average increase in abundance over the past few decades. The researchers put this down to improved management in these monitored fisheries – which allows stocks to recover and replenish, thanks to measures including catch limits designed to curtail overfishing.

What’s more, because scientifically monitored fisheries make up a surprising 50% of all the reported catch in the world, this paints a much more positive picture of how fisheries may actually be faring across large parts of the globe.... (MORE)
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