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Agriculture & Rural Development - Sunken Billions: The Economic Justification for Fisheries Reform. Figure 1. Stagnant Capture Fishery Supply: Growing Aquaculture Production 1950-2005 The Economic Health of Fisheries The focus on the declining biological health of the world’s fisheries has tended to obscure the even more critical economic health of the fisheries. Economically, healthy fisheries are fundamental to achieving not only the restoration of fish stocks but other accepted objectives for the fisheries sector, such as improved livelihoods, exports, fish food security and economic growth.

When fish stocks are fully exploited in the biological sense, the associated fisheries are almost invariably performing below their economic optimum. For over three decades the world’s marine fish stocks have come under increasing pressure from fishing, from loss of habitats and from pollution. Declining Productivity – Increasing Pressures Long before the fuel price increases of 2008, the economic health of the world’s marine fisheries has been in decline. Half the fishing – half the fuel. The official website of the European Union. BusinessWeek - Business News, Stock Market & Financial Advice.

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