But global fisheries are facing a number of challenges: changes in markets, demographics, and over-exploitation will significantly
impact global fisheries in the near future, while climate change is expected to pose a major challenge over the longer term.
Not exact matches
Karmenu Vella, European Commissioner for Environment,
Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: «This study by ELD shows the immediate and
global impact of land degradation and highlights that actions to tackle it pay off.
«This is the best attempt, published to date, to bring together the available data to quantify
fisheries impacts on sharks at a
global scale,» says John Musick, a shark expert at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science in Gloucester Point.
Scientists have discovered that rising ocean temperatures slow the development of baby fish around the equator, raising concerns about the
impact of
global warming on fish and
fisheries in the tropics.
Now new research shows that
fishery managers may have grossly underestimated the
global impacts of trawling for decades.
She is also a Nereus fellow, which means she is part of the collaborative Nereus program between six leading marine science institutes with the aim of undertaking research that advances our comprehensive understandings of the
global ocean systems across the natural and social sciences, from oceanography and marine ecology to
fisheries economics and
impacts on coastal communities.
Data currently being collected about the
impact on Lake Turkana's food web and
fisheries from hydroelectric and agriculture projects may prove vital to a growing
global population whose fresh water sources have become increasingly taxed.
The most comprehensive
global evaluation of
fisheries bycatch
impacts on large marine species, published this month in the journal Ecosphere, revealed that sea turtle populations in the East Pacific, North Atlantic, Southwest Atlantic, and Mediterranean face higher bycatch and mortality rates.
Ficke, A. D., C. A. Myrick, and L. J. Hansen, 2007: Potential
impacts of
global climate change on freshwater
fisheries.
With a rise in annual
global temperature (e.g. of the order of 1.5 to 2.0 °C)
fisheries in North West Africa and the East African lakes are shown to be
impacted (see ECF and Potsdam Institute, 2004; Warren et al., 2006).
The scope of this chapter, with a focus on food crops, pastures and livestock, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry (commercial forests), aquaculture and
fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculturalists and artisanal fishers, is to: examine current climate sensitivities / vulnerabilities; consider future trends in climate,
global and regional food security, forestry and
fisheries production; review key future
impacts of climate change in food crops pasture and livestock production, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry,
fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculture; assess the effectiveness of adaptation in offsetting damages and identify adaptation options, including planned adaptation to climate change; examine the social and economic costs of climate change in those sectors; and, explore the implications of responding to climate change for sustainable development.
Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and
impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the
Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human heal
Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the
Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human heal
Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a
global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human heal
global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the
impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious
impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources,
fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.
High confidence that due to glacier mass loss there will be related
impacts on hydropower production, ocean circulation,
fisheries, and
global sea level rise.
In addition, a study commissioned by Canada's
Fisheries and Oceans Department examined the relationship between air temperature and sea ice coverage, concluding, «the possible
impact of
global warming appears to play a minor role in changes to Arctic sea ice.»
Because natural variability is so great relative to
global change, and the time horizon on capital replacement (e.g., ships and plants) is so short,
impacts on
fisheries can be easily overstated, and there will likely be relatively small economic and food supply consequences so long as no major fish stocks collapse
A wide range of human activities affect marine biodiversity both in direct ways, such as exploitation by
fisheries, habitat loss due to dredging, filling, and other construction influences, fishing gear
impacts, and pollution, and in less direct ways, including effects of
global change resulting in acidification, warmer waters, and coastal inundation.
This analytical report provides an overview of pathways through which climate change
impacts fisheries and food security, placing these in context with the range of risks facing
global marine and freshwater
fisheries.
The
impact of upstream catch and
global warming on the grey mullet
fishery in Taiwan: A non-cooperative game analysis.