TY - JOUR
T1 - Applying a New Ensemble Approach to Estimating Stock Status of Marine Fisheries around the World
AU - Rosenberg, Andrew A.
AU - Kleisner, Kristin M.
AU - Afflerbach, Jamie
AU - Anderson, Sean C.
AU - Dickey-Collas, Mark
AU - Cooper, Andrew B.
AU - Fogarty, Michael J.
AU - Fulton, Elizabeth A.
AU - Gutiérrez, Nicolás L.
AU - Hyde, Kimberly J.W.
AU - Jardim, Ernesto
AU - Jensen, Olaf P.
AU - Kristiansen, Trond
AU - Longo, Catherine
AU - Minte-Vera, Carolina V.
AU - Minto, Cóilín
AU - Mosqueira, Iago
AU - Osio, Giacomo Chato
AU - Ovando, Daniel
AU - Selig, Elizabeth R.
AU - Thorson, James T.
AU - Walsh, Jessica C.
AU - Ye, Yimin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright and Photocopying: © 2017 The Authors. Conservation Letters published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - The exploitation status of marine fisheries stocks worldwide is of critical importance for food security, ecosystem conservation, and fishery sustainability. Applying a suite of data-limited methods to global catch data, combined through an ensemble modeling approach, we provide quantitative estimates of exploitation status for 785 fish stocks. Fifty-three percent (414 stocks) are below BMSY and of these, 265 are estimated to be below 80% of the BMSY level. While the 149 stocks above 80% of BMSY are conventionally considered “fully exploited,” stocks staying at this level for many years, forego substantial yield. Our results enable managers to consider more detailed information than simply a categorization of stocks as “fully” or “over” exploited. Our approach is reproducible, allows consistent application to a broad range of stocks, and can be easily updated as new data become available. Applied on an ongoing basis, this approach can provide critical, more detailed information for resource management for more exploited fish stocks than currently available.
AB - The exploitation status of marine fisheries stocks worldwide is of critical importance for food security, ecosystem conservation, and fishery sustainability. Applying a suite of data-limited methods to global catch data, combined through an ensemble modeling approach, we provide quantitative estimates of exploitation status for 785 fish stocks. Fifty-three percent (414 stocks) are below BMSY and of these, 265 are estimated to be below 80% of the BMSY level. While the 149 stocks above 80% of BMSY are conventionally considered “fully exploited,” stocks staying at this level for many years, forego substantial yield. Our results enable managers to consider more detailed information than simply a categorization of stocks as “fully” or “over” exploited. Our approach is reproducible, allows consistent application to a broad range of stocks, and can be easily updated as new data become available. Applied on an ongoing basis, this approach can provide critical, more detailed information for resource management for more exploited fish stocks than currently available.
KW - Fisheries exploitation status
KW - ecosystem sustainability
KW - food security
KW - global fisheries
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85017639961&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/conl.12363
DO - 10.1111/conl.12363
M3 - Letter
AN - SCOPUS:85017639961
SN - 1755-263X
VL - 11
JO - Conservation Letters
JF - Conservation Letters
IS - 1
M1 - e12363
ER -