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Fishing
About: Fishing is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 26543 publications have been published within this topic receiving 455552 citations. The topic is also known as: angling.
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01 Jan 1972
109 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that tuna needs to contribute to Pacific Island societies in another important way by increasing local access to the fish required for good nutrition to help combat the world's highest levels of diabetes and obesity.
109 citations
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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: In the Western Central Pacific region, most sea cucumber fisheries have exhibited boom-and-bust cycles since the late nineteenth century as mentioned in this paper, where high value species have been depleted and previously unfished species are now exploited.
Abstract: SUmmARy In the Western Central Pacific region, most sea cucumber fisheries have exhibited boomand-bust cycles since the late nineteenth century. Since the 1980s, elevated export prices and demand from Asian markets have been the catalysts for increased fishing. At many localities, high-value species have been depleted and previously unfished species are now exploited. The sustainability of these fisheries is of widespread concern. Australia and Melanesian countries are the largest exporters of beche-de-mer in the region. While annual exports from Melanesian countries have not declined markedly over the last two decades, those from Polynesia and Micronesia have. The declining exports appear to be attributed to unsustainable fishing pressure and naturally low abundances of many commercial species in remote Pacific islands and atolls. Currently, 35 sea cucumber species in the families Holothuriidae and Stichopodidae are thought to be harvested. Greater endemicity occurs in Melanesian countries with sea cucumber species richness generally declining eastward of Papua New Guinea (PNG). On average, 13 species are harvested per country.
109 citations
TL;DR: Contrary to the initial hypothesis, total fish consumption by six major predators has remained generally constant despite changes in predator size, structure and abundance.
109 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined levels of functional diversity and redundancy within these assemblages and determined how fish biomass and local fisheries catches vary with local diversity, concluding that even small declines in biodiversity may result in large reductions in secondary production and seafood provision.
109 citations