Wealthy countries dominate industrial fishing

cg.contribution.worldfishauthorAllison, E.
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of California
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Washington
cg.contributor.affiliationWorldFish
cg.contributor.affiliationHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
cg.contributor.affiliationGlobal Fishing Watch
cg.contributor.affiliationPristine Seas
cg.contributor.crpFish
cg.contributor.funderBenioff Ocean Initiative
cg.contributor.funderAlfred P. Sloan Foundation
cg.contributor.funderSESYNC (National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center) National Science Foundation
cg.contributor.funderWellcome Trust Our Planet, Our Health
cg.contributor.funderNational Geographic Society’s Pristine Seas project and E. Sala
cg.coverage.regionGlobal
cg.description.themeFisheriesen_US
cg.identifier.ISIindexedISI indexed
cg.identifier.statusOpen access
cg.identifier.worldfish4336
cg.subject.agrovocFisheries
dc.creatorMcCauley, D.J.
dc.creatorJablonicky, C.
dc.creatorAllison, E.
dc.creatorGolden, C.D.
dc.creatorJoyce, F.H.
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-20T10:49:05Z
dc.date.available2019-01-20T10:49:05Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThe patterns by which different nations share global fisheries influence outcomes for food security, trajectories of economic development, and competition between industrial and small-scale fishing. We report patterns of industrial fishing effort for vessels flagged to higher- and lower-income nations, in marine areas within and beyond national jurisdiction, using analyses of high-resolution fishing vessel activity data. These analyses reveal global dominance of industrial fishing by wealthy nations. Vessels flagged to higher-income nations, for example, are responsible for 97% of the trackable industrial fishing on the high seas and 78% of such effort within the national waters of lower-income countries. These publicly accessible vessel tracking data have important limitations. However, insights from these new analyses can begin to strategically inform important international- and national-level efforts underway now to ensure equitable and sustainable sharing of fisheries.
dc.description.versionPeer Review
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dc.identifier4336.pdf
dc.identifier.citationScience Advances, 4(8): eaau2161
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aau2161en_US
dc.identifier.issn2375-2548
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12348/2339
dc.languageen
dc.publisherAmerican Association of Advancement Science
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.sourceScience Advances
dc.titleWealthy countries dominate industrial fishing
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMcCauley, D.J. et al. (2018). Wealthy countries dominate industrial fishing. Science Advances, 4(8): eaau2161

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