Deep sea fishing is ‘unsustainable’; efforts should concentrate on ‘productive local waters’

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A team of marine scientists is urging an end to most commercial fishing in the deep sea and instead recommending fishing in more productive and local waters. In their analysis published online in the journal ‘Marine Policy’, the team shows that all deep-sea fisheries are unsustainable. Read full article

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GeoffWard2
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Deep sea spp. like the Orange Roughy need many years to return to sensible stock levels

It's my understanding that Argentina exercises no real and effective constraint on overfishing because there are no reliable daily landing records.
Thus, the only way they are aware of it is by the retrospective, year-on-year decline of the stocks - this is an indicator of severe overfishing; but insufficient is being done to reverse the trend.

This impacts on stocks of species of (deep-sea) roundfish, flatfish, sharks & rays, and cephalopods across the South Atlantic.

Thus, Falkland Island managed stocks are being severely depleted by activities beyond their control.

I don't believe this to be an Argentinian machaevelian strategy of resource depletion/starvation of the perceived 'enemy - The Falkland Islands', but even if it is not 'policy' it is certainly 'practice''.

[I'm not making a partisan point here - the EU is also bad at stock management because they prefer 'political' rather than scientific stock management control.]
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