Fishing Down Marine Food Webs Export

@article{citeulike:1120889, abstract = {The mean trophic level of the species groups reported in Food and Agricultural Organization global fisheries statistics declined from 1950 to 1994. This reflects a gradual transition in landings from long-lived, high trophic level, piscivorous bottom fish toward short-lived, low trophic level invertebrates and planktivorous pelagic fish. This effect, also found to be occurring in inland fisheries, is most pronounced in the Northern Hemisphere. Fishing down food webs (that is, at lower trophic levels) leads at first to increasing catches, then to a phase transition associated with stagnating or declining catches. These results indicate that present exploitation patterns are unsustainable.}, author = {Pauly, Daniel and Christensen, Villy and Dalsgaard, Johanne and Froese, Rainer and Torres, Francisco}, citeulike-article-id = {1120889}, day = {8}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {feeding, fisheries, fishes, fishing, networks, oceans, seas, sustainable}, month = {February}, number = {5352}, pages = {860--863}, posted-at = {2007-02-25 14:27:54}, priority = {2}, title = {Fishing Down Marine Food Webs}, volume = {279}, year = {1998} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1120889 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1120889 N2 - The mean trophic level of the species groups reported in Food and Agricultural Organization global fisheries statistics declined from 1950 to 1994. This reflects a gradual transition in landings from long-lived, high trophic level, piscivorous bottom fish toward short-lived, low trophic level invertebrates and planktivorous pelagic fish. This effect, also found to be occurring in inland fisheries, is most pronounced in the Northern Hemisphere. Fishing down food webs (that is, at lower trophic levels) leads at first to increasing catches, then to a phase transition associated with stagnating or declining catches. These results indicate that present exploitation patterns are unsustainable. IS - 5352 JF - Science EP - 863 TI - Fishing Down Marine Food Webs VL - 279 SP - 860 KW - feeding KW - fisheries KW - fishes KW - fishing KW - networks KW - oceans KW - seas KW - sustainable AU - Pauly, Daniel AU - Christensen, Villy AU - Dalsgaard, Johanne AU - Froese, Rainer AU - Torres, Francisco PY - 1998/02/08/ ER -