July 15, 2012

How to make global fisheries worth five times more: UBC research




How to make global fisheries worth five times more: UBC research

Media Release | Jul. 13, 2012
Rebuilding global fisheries would make them five times more valuable while improving ecology, according to a new University of British Columbia study, published today in the online journal PLoS ONE.

By reducing the size of the global fishing fleet, eliminating harmful government subsidies, and putting in place effective management systems, global fisheries would be worth US$54 billion each year, rather than losing US$13 billion per year.

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