A Fixed-Effort Fishery More Sustainable for Economy and Environment

Katherine E Kerlin — November 04, 2020 - 10:00am

For a truly sustainable fishery, more needs to be considered than just the abundance of the harvested species. Harvesting even abundant species can create indirect extinction cascades down the food web that can harm the long-term economic and ecological sustainability of a fishery.

That is according to a study from the University of California, Davis, published today in the journal Science Advances.

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A Fixed-Effort Fishery More Sustainable for Economy and Environment