Sentences with phrase «major global fishery»

As a result, the region is a major global fishery, and over the years increasing demand and overfishing threatened to collapse Palau's critical resources.

Not exact matches

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.

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