Sustaining America's Fisheries and Fishing Communities--An Evaluation of mcentive-Based Management

摘要

Americans are enthusiastic seafoodconsumers. From fish sandwiches togourmet wild Alaskan salmon, we eatclose to five billion pounds of seafooda year, putting the U.S. third in globalconsumption behind Japan and China.But our love of seafood has consequences.In November 2006, newspapersacross the country featured a cautionary tale. According to a report in thejournal Science, several of the world'sleading marine biologists concludedthat, in a worse case scenario and withcontinued bad practices, all fish andseafood species worldwide would crashby 2048. Whether this and similar conjectures come true depends on how werespond to the demonstrated biologicaland economic decline of fisheries.Many fisheries are in trouble. Worldwide, it has been estimated that 90% ofspecies of large predatory fish are already gone.