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I just posted the Nature article to the list. I don't have the other
references, I just posted what you saw. Bill
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From: "David W. Kerstetter" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: WORLD FISHERIES ASSESSMENTS MAY BE STATISTICALLY FLAWED
> I tried to go to that website, but the new issue has displaced the one you
> cited. Do you know where the EC report can be found? Many thanks!
>
> Dave Kerstetter
>
> Graduate Student
> VIMS Department of Fisheries Science
>
> On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, William Silvert wrote:
>
> > This paper in the latest issue of Nature has been so widely publicised
that
> > maybe all subscribers have seen it, but it is potentially important
enough
> > to bear repeating. This account is from the AFS newsletter. Bill Silvert
> >
> > WORLD FISHERIES ASSESSMENTS MAY BE
> > STATISTICALLY FLAWED: Various official reports have indicated
> > serious overall worldwide increased fisheries harvests in recent years,
> > particularly based on data recently discovered to have been seriously
> > flawed. Systematic over-reporting by China in the 1990's has been
> > found that, because the China harvests are so large, biases worldwide
> > harvest statistics considerably, so that the overall harvest trend was
> > officially up for the 1990's while the actual harvest levels had
actually
> > begun to decline. What this means is that the actual harvests, and
> > perhaps the status of fish stocks, is worse than reported by the United
> > Nations Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) findings that depleted
> > and overexploited ocean fish stocks constitute about 28 percent of the
> > fish in the world's oceans; fully exploited stocks account for another
47
> > percent, with moderately exploited and under-exploited totaling about
> > 25 percent. The report, "Systematic Distortions In World Fisheries
> > Catch Trends," by Watson and Pauly, appears as a letter in the 29
> > November issue of Nature (No. 414, pp. 534-536). To view this report,
> > go to: http://www.nature.com/nature/links/011129/011129-2.html.
> >
> > The Watson and Pauly letter comes on the heels of a scathing
> > European Commission report on the European Union's (EU) Common
> > Fishery Policy (CFP). According to a 23 November article in the U.K.
> > trade publication, Fishing News (p.1), the Commission found
> > enforcement and monitoring under the CFP to be fragmented, with
> > unauthorized fishing being the most frequent infringement of the CFP.
> > The report about management implementation, enforcement and
> > monitoring for fisheries in the developed world brings into serious
> > question the degree of adherence to management measures in less
> > developed nations. To see the full FN article, go to:
> > www.fishingnews.co.uk.
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