There is fresh hope that the world’s depleted fisheries can be saved from collapse, say a team of researchers.
They said that efforts introduced to halt overfishing in five of the 10 large marine ecosystems they examined were showing signs of success. A combination of measures – such as catch quotas, no-take zones, and selective fishing gear – had helped fish stocks recover, they added.
Details of the two-year study by 19 marine scientists appear in Science. However, the team warned, a large percentage of the world’s fisheries remained unmanaged, so much work still had to be done to halt the damage caused by overfishing.