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The Traffic Light colour convention, showing the concept of Harvest Control Rule (HCR), specifying when a rebuilding plan is mandatory in terms of precautionary and limit reference points for spawning biomass and fishing mortality rate.
Overfishing occurs when fishing activities reduce fish stocks below an acceptable level. This can occur in any body of water from a pond to the oceans. More precise biological and bioeconomic terms define 'acceptable level'. Biological overfishing occurs when fishing mortality has reached a level where the stock biomass has negative marginal growth (slowing down biomass growth), as indicated by the red area in the figure. (Fish are being taken out of the water so quickly that the replenishment of stock by breeding slows down. If the replenishment continues to slow down for long enough, replenishment will go into reverse and the population will decrease.) Economic or bioeconomic overfishing additionally considers the cost of fishing and defines overfishing as a situation of negative marginal growth of resource rent. (Fish are being taken out of the water so quickly that the growth in the profitability of fishing slows down. If this continues for long enough, profitability will decrease.) A more dynamic definition of economic overfishing may also include a relevant discount rate and present value of flow of resource rent over all future catches. Ultimately overfishing may lead to resource depletion in cases of subsidised fishing, low biological growth rates and critical low biomass levels (e.g. by critical depensation growth properties). The ability of the fisheries to naturally recover also depends on whether the conditions of the ecosystems are suitable for population growth. Dramatic changes in species composition may establish other equilibrium energy flows that involve other species compositions than had been present before (ecosystem shift). (For example: remove nearly all the trout, the carp take over and make it near impossible for the trout to re-establish a breeding population.) Video
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Monterey Bay Aquarium: Seafood Watch Program - Issues - Overfishing  Ocean Conservancy: Overfishing  Overfishing | Greenpeace International  Ocean Conservancy: Overfishing Scorecard  Overfishing | Greenpeace Australia Pacific  Overfishing  Sustainable Fisheries - MarineBio.org  See the Sea - Overfishing is depleting our Oceans of Fish Posts in groups Re: Human Impacts on Ancient Marine Ecosystems ... have declined, but it is suspected to be a combination of factors... pollution upstream into the sounds, overfishing, disturbance of the wetlands in general, and of course unknowns are thrown in for the fun of it. My guess would be overfishing. I'd have to look at the data to form an opinion on this specific situation. Be careful not to ... Re: Human Impacts on Ancient Marine Ecosystems ...A very vibrant fishing industry in NC (USA) is very very stressed. It is unknown why the fish have declined, but it is suspected to be a combination of factors... pollution upstream into the sounds, overfishing, disturbance of the wetlands in general, and of course unknowns are thrown in for the fun of it. I care about zebra mussels in the Great Lakes. or over population of rabbits in ... Laidback in Laos ... places in the world you can still see freshwater dolphins. Like many of the creatures that live in or along the river, the dolphins are endangered, victims of a triple threat of overfishing, unregulated development and pollution. Some estimates put their numbers at between 70 and 100, and it's believed they only live in the 200km stretch of the Mekong between here and northern Cambodia.... Re: Sealers Drown ... banned. I suppose the counter to that is that seals eat fish. Stop killing seals and the growth in the seal population will impact the fishing industry. (Not that they don't overfish anyway.) If we are going to stop killing seals, then we need to introduce a natural predator that will control the seal population. -- John Fleming Edmonton, Canada A Dreamer is One Who... Re: Sealers Drown ... banned. I suppose the counter to that is that seals eat fish. Stop killing seals and the growth in the seal population will impact the fishing industry. (Not that they don't overfish anyway.) If we are going to stop killing seals, then we need to introduce a natural predator that will control the seal population. -- John Fleming Edmonton, Canada A Dreamer is One Who... Re: Paul Watson shows his true colours ...$9X3.10910@edtnps82... "Jack" <bigcletus123@yahoo.com.com> wrote in message news:47f6f9e2$0$4041$9a566e8b@news.aliant.net... And I say to you again, before we began overfishing, there were (a) numerous seals, and (b) numerous fish ... existing in harmony together. So -- logical leap for you -- maybe the problem isn't the seals. -Al- ... Re: Paul Watson shows his true colours > "Jack" <bigcletus123@yahoo.com.com> wrote in message news:47f6f9e2$0$4041$9a566e8b@news.aliant.net... And I say to you again, before we began overfishing, there were (a) numerous seals, and (b) numerous fish ... existing in harmony together. So -- logical leap for you -- maybe the problem isn't the seals. -Al- when you see factory fishing boats taking tons of ... Re: Paul Watson shows his true colours "Jack" <bigcletus123@yahoo.com.com> wrote in message news:47f6f9e2$0$4041$9a566e8b@news.aliant.net... And I say to you again, before we began overfishing, there were (a) numerous seals, and (b) numerous fish ... existing in harmony together. So -- logical leap for you -- maybe the problem isn't the seals. -Al- when you see factory fishing boats taking tons of ... Re: Paul Watson shows his true colours ....741@edtnps89... Yet before there was massive overfishing by human beings, there were plenty of fish...>> driven the fish stocks to near extinction by overfishing. Same controls are still on the seals in ... I say to you again, before we began overfishing, there were (a) numerous seals, and (b).... -Al- It wasn't before overfishing. But I'll make it really simple: ... Re: Paul Watson shows his true colours And I say to you again, before we began overfishing, there were (a) numerous seals, and (b) numerous fish ... existing in harmony together. So -- logical leap for you -- maybe the problem isn't the seals. -Al- when you see factory fishing boats taking tons of fish at a time...something has to give. I'm sure the seals eat their weight in gold everyday too..but combined ... |
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