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Data from: Catch reconstructions reveal that global marine fisheries catches are higher than reported and declining Pauly, Daniel; Zeller, Dirk

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<b>Abstract</b><br/>Fisheries data assembled by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) suggest that global marine fisheries catches increased to 86 million tonnes in 1996, then slightly declined. Here, using a decade-long multinational ‘catch reconstruction’ project covering the Exclusive Economic Zones of the world’s maritime countries and the High Seas from 1950 to 2010, and accounting for all fisheries, we identify catch trajectories differing considerably from the national data submitted to the FAO. We suggest that catch actually peaked at 130 million tonnes, and has been declining much more strongly since. This decline in reconstructed catches reflects declines in industrial catches and to a smaller extent declining discards, despite industrial fishing having expanded from industrialized countries to the waters of developing countries. The differing trajectories documented here suggest a need for improved monitoring of all fisheries, including often neglected small-scale fisheries, and illegal and other problematic fisheries, as well as discarded bycatch.; <b>Usage notes</b><br /><div class="o-metadata__file-usage-entry"><h4 class="o-heading__level3-file-title">Pauly&Zeller-data-F1-F2-F4-Nov-04-2015</h4><div class="o-metadata__file-description">Data as used for and presented in Figures 1, 2 and 4 of the associated paper</div><div class="o-metadata__file-name"></div></div><div class="o-metadata__file-usage-entry"><h4 class="o-heading__level3-file-title">Pauly&Zeller-data-F3-Nov-04-2015</h4><div class="o-metadata__file-description">Data used for and presented in Figure 3 of the associated paper</div><div class="o-metadata__file-name"></div></div>

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Title	Data from: Catch reconstructions reveal that global marine fisheries catches are higher than reported and declining
Creator	Pauly, Daniel; Zeller, Dirk
Date Issued	2021-05-19
Description	<b>Abstract</b><br/>Fisheries data assembled by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) suggest that global marine fisheries catches increased to 86 million tonnes in 1996, then slightly declined. Here, using a decade-long multinational ‘catch reconstruction’ project covering the Exclusive Economic Zones of the world’s maritime countries and the High Seas from 1950 to 2010, and accounting for all fisheries, we identify catch trajectories differing considerably from the national data submitted to the FAO. We suggest that catch actually peaked at 130 million tonnes, and has been declining much more strongly since. This decline in reconstructed catches reflects declines in industrial catches and to a smaller extent declining discards, despite industrial fishing having expanded from industrialized countries to the waters of developing countries. The differing trajectories documented here suggest a need for improved monitoring of all fisheries, including often neglected small-scale fisheries, and illegal and other problematic fisheries, as well as discarded bycatch.; <b>Usage notes</b><br /><div class="o-metadata__file-usage-entry"><h4 class="o-heading__level3-file-title">Pauly&Zeller-data-F1-F2-F4-Nov-04-2015</h4><div class="o-metadata__file-description">Data as used for and presented in Figures 1, 2 and 4 of the associated paper</div><div class="o-metadata__file-name"></div></div><div class="o-metadata__file-usage-entry"><h4 class="o-heading__level3-file-title">Pauly&Zeller-data-F3-Nov-04-2015</h4><div class="o-metadata__file-description">Data used for and presented in Figure 3 of the associated paper</div><div class="o-metadata__file-name"></div></div>
Subject	Other; Fisheries catch data; global fisheries; 1950-2010; catch reconstructions
Geographic Location	global
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Notes	Dryad version number: 1</p> Version status: submitted</p> Dryad curation status: Published</p> Sharing link: https://datadryad.org/stash/share/z0y3m4mIEbm5-0KJb6SbQnbWwOUca6GQ2T5ZLUZxFX8</p> Storage size: 266332</p> Visibility: public</p>
Date Available	2020-06-24
Provider	University of British Columbia Library
License	CC0 1.0
DOI	10.14288/1.0397983
URI	https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/WKSF1Q
Publisher DOI	https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/WKSF1Q; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.4s4t1
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
Aggregated Source Repository	Dataverse

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