Rainer Froese

Aug 22, 2024 | science.org | Girardin Jean-Louis |Rainer Froese |Daniel Pauly

Fishing boats set off to the East China Sea after a 3-month fishing moratorium. Overfished stocks are on the rise globally, suggesting that management advice is not sufficiently conservative. PHOTO: COSTFOTO/NURPHOTO VIA APMarine fish populations or “stocks” are subject to fishing pressure along the world’s coastlines by local fishers and further offshore by industrial fleets, whose huge capacity is capable of decimating the fish that they target.