UCSB Researchers Find Significant Gaps in Widely Used Fisheries Datasets
December 7, 2020 at 10:30 am by Sean Crommelin The health of fishery stocks is of paramount importance to food security across the world. Billions of people rely on wild-caught and farmed seafood to provide their main source of protein. Unfortunately, fish stocks in recent years have found themselves in precarious positions following years of overexploitation. Freshly fished Larimichthys polyactis, or small yellow croaker, stored in plastic tubs and covered in ice. Courtesy of Cody Szuwalski As policymakers in the present day must contend with the overlapping effects of overfishing...
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