Benefits of rebuilding global marine fisheries outweigh costs.
Global marine fisheries are currently underperforming, largely due to overfishing. An analysis of global databases finds that resource rent net of subsidies from rebuilt world fisheries could increase from the current negative US$13 billion to positive US$54 billion per year, resulting in a net gain...
Main Authors: | Ussif Rashid Sumaila, William Cheung, Andrew Dyck, Kamal Gueye, Ling Huang, Vicky Lam, Daniel Pauly, Thara Srinivasan, Wilf Swartz, Reginald Watson, Dirk Zeller |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2012-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3396648?pdf=render |
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