Authors: Jim Salinger Alistair J Hobday
Publish Date: 2012/10/19
Volume: 119, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-8
Abstract
Marine fisheries play a crucial role in providing food security and livelihoods particularly in developing countries According to the Food and Agricultural Organization FAO fish comprises about 20 of the animal protein in the diets of over 28 billion people The contribution of fish to dietary animal protein can reach 50 in the world’s poorest regions and up to 90 in small island developingstates Absence of property rights coupled with fisher and management perceptions that fisheries resources are infinite have seen many fisheries experience the socalled ‘tragedy of the commons’ Hardin 1968 Many fish stocks have been declining and as Brander 2013 notes full global exploitation of the most productive fish stocks probably occurred around 1990 with many fisheries now classed as overexploited For nearly 500 years northeast Atlantic fishing grounds such as the Grand Banks off Newfoundland offered up an amazing catch until the 20th century when the fishing effort
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