To move the world fisheries toward sustainability we need a combination of enforcement and incentives. This study focuses on the economic reasons for sustainability.
Build up fish stocks now for big money later: study
By Deborah Zabarenko,
Environment Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Commercial fishers should cut back on their catch and allow fish stocks to grow above the levels most governments currently advise if they want to boost long-term profits, economists reported on Thursday.
Such a strategy would sustain fish populations and save fuel while opening the way to big profits in the future, the researchers reported in the journal Science.
And the more depleted a fishery has become, the better the results when stocks are built up to what the researchers call the biomass maximum economic yield. That might be...(complete article here).
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