POSTSCRIPT
2016
Anecdotes and the shifting baseline syndrome of fisheries F isheries have recently become a topic for media with global audiences- but then again, fisheries are a global disaster: one of the few that affect, in very similar fashion, developed countries with well-established administrative and scientific infrastructure, newly industrialized coun-tries, and developing countries. This is quickly summarized: l Heavily subsidized fleets, exceeding by a factor of 2 or 3 the numbers required to harvest nominal annual catches of about 90 million tonnes. l Staggering levels of discarded bycatch,
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