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. 2013 Oct 1;110(40):15859-60.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1315109110. Epub 2013 Sep 24.

Forecasting fisheries collapse

Steven D Gaines  1 , Christopher Costello
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Forecasting fisheries collapse

Steven D Gaines et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Map of fisheries species diversity for FAO regions in exclusive economic zones (EEZs). Hashed lines denote where less than 50% of catch is identified to species. Diversity varies greatly among countries, reflecting both biogeography and the historical development of fisheries. These species numbers reflect only commercially harvested species, not the broader diversity caught as bycatch. Data sources: Esri, GEBCO, NOAA, National Geographic, DeLorme, NAVTEQ, & Geonames.org. Images at bottom illustrate diversity challenges outlined in Burgess et al. (4). From Left to Right: Diverse catch in shrimp trawls, where most of the biomass is bycatch (photograph by Elliott Norse, Marine Conservation Institute/Marine Photobank); bycatch of an albratross in a long line fishery (photograph by Projeto Tamar Brazil/Marine Photobank); weak stock species, Canary rockfish, whose overfished status constrains a diverse groundfish fishery along the west coast of the United States (photograph by Gerick Bergsma 2010/Marine Photobank); extreme example of high incidental mortality from indiscriminate dynamite fishing (photograph from 2004 Berkley White/Marine Photobank).
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