TY - JOUR
T1 - Global Fisheries Science Documents Human Impacts on Oceans
T2 - The Sea Around Us Serves Civil Society in the Twenty-First Century
AU - Zeller, Dirk
AU - Palomares, Maria L. D.
AU - Pauly, Daniel
PY - 2023/1/16
Y1 - 2023/1/16
N2 - Fishing provides the world with an important component of its food supply, but it also negatively impacts the biodiversity of marine and freshwater ecosystems, especially when industrial fishing is involved. To mitigate these impacts, civil society needs access to fisheries data (i.e., catches and catch-derived indicators of these impacts). Such data, however, must be more comprehensive than the official fisheries statistics supplied to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) by its member countries, which shape public policy in spite of their deficiencies, notably underestimating small-scale fisheries. This article documents the creation, based on the geographically coarse FAO data, of a database and website (https://www.seaaroundus.org) that provides free reconstructed (i.e., corrected) catch data by ecosystem, country, species, gear type, commercial value, etc., to any interested person, along with catch-derived indicators from 1950 to the near present for the entire world.
AB - Fishing provides the world with an important component of its food supply, but it also negatively impacts the biodiversity of marine and freshwater ecosystems, especially when industrial fishing is involved. To mitigate these impacts, civil society needs access to fisheries data (i.e., catches and catch-derived indicators of these impacts). Such data, however, must be more comprehensive than the official fisheries statistics supplied to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) by its member countries, which shape public policy in spite of their deficiencies, notably underestimating small-scale fisheries. This article documents the creation, based on the geographically coarse FAO data, of a database and website (https://www.seaaroundus.org) that provides free reconstructed (i.e., corrected) catch data by ecosystem, country, species, gear type, commercial value, etc., to any interested person, along with catch-derived indicators from 1950 to the near present for the entire world.
KW - artisanal fisheries
KW - subsistence fisheries
KW - data science
KW - global studies
KW - large-scale fisheries
KW - marine ecosystems
KW - open data
KW - MARINE PROTECTION TARGETS
KW - CATCH DATA
KW - WORLD
KW - SUSTAINABILITY
KW - RECONSTRUCTION
KW - RESOURCE
KW - COLLAPSE
KW - DATABASE
KW - PACIFIC
KW - COASTAL
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85146365248&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1146/annurev-marine-030322-113814
DO - 10.1146/annurev-marine-030322-113814
M3 - Review article
C2 - 35773214
SN - 1941-1405
VL - 15
SP - 147
EP - 165
JO - Annual Review of Marine Science
JF - Annual Review of Marine Science
ER -