Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

Catch reconstructions reveal that global marine fisheries catches are higher than reported and declining

  • Daniel Pauly,
  • Dirk Zeller

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10244
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Officially reported fisheries statistics suggest that global catches have stabilized since their peak in the mid-1990s. Here, the authors supplement these reported data with best-estimate values of missing data from the literature, and find that global catches have steadily declined over this time period.