A Fishy Business

2014

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022

The Blue Book Copernicus for A Sustainable Ocean, 2019

Published by Mercator Ocean International, implementer of the Copernicus Marine Service of the European Union, the Blue Book is a report to inform all European citizens including policy-makers, students and youth, about the role the Copernicus Marine Service plays for the blue economy, for the environment and for society at large. Among its contributors are decision-makers, entrepreneurs, experts, concerned citizens, and scientists from all over the world that are directly involved in ocean-related issues. They share with the reader factual and easily accessible information on pressures affecting the global ocean and the subsequent impacts on the Earth’s climate, environment and biodiversity and how they mitigate them by using information and data from the Copernicus Marine Service. Their testimony also highlights the tremendous potential of the ocean for the blue economy, education, etc. and the way it can be harnessed by using information and data from the Copernicus Marine Service.

Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2018

Environmental Health Perspectives, 2004

Nevertheless, many ecosystems providing this wealth are being degraded at an alarming rate. Marine areas globally are threatened with a catastrophic confluence of pressures: overfishing, excess nutrients from sewage and agricultural runoff, toxic pollutants from ...

Environmental Health Perspectives, 2004

Consumer demand for seafood has skyrocketed since the 1970s. Total fish consumption worldwide jumped from almost 50 million metric tons in 1976 to 95.5 million metric tons in 1990, according to the 2002 State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture report by the Food ...

It is becoming increasing clear that humans impact marine ecosystems and their biodiversity to a very considerate degree, and evidence of the scale of impact is growing. An enabling factor for this has been a change in focus from local-level studies to increased emphasis on meta-analysis of global or regional-level analysis of fisheries impact. Results include the facts that the world’s total fish catches have been decreasing over the last decade or more; that larger, predatory fishes (table fish) are becoming increasingly scarcer; and that we are appropriating the ocean shelves’ primary productivity to the same level as we are for terrestrial ecosystems. Ecosystems are being eroded in countries throughout the world, and though one might get the impression from the IUCN Red List that it is mainly a developed-country problem, it is alarming that the impact of severe overfishing may be on an even larger scale for developing countries. We describe aspects of the risks overfishing poses to marine ecosystems, and point out how ecosystem approaches to fisheries can be used to evaluate the potential impact of alternative fishing policy scenarios.

Fisheries Oceanography, 2004