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The Sunken Billions Revisited : Progress and Challenges in Global Marine Fisheries

Global marine fisheries are in crisis: 90 percent are fully fished and overfished. The result is lost economic benefits of approximately $83 billion a year ---the “sunken billions” of the title. Reducing overfishing would allow severely overexploited fish stocks to recover over time. Subsequently,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: World Bank
Language:English
en_US
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2016
Subjects:
FISHERIES
GLOBAL FISHERIES
REGIONAL FISHERIES
FISHERIES CRISIS
OVERFISHING
FISHERIES OVERCAPACITY
FISHERIES REFORM
FISHERIES GOVERNANCE
GLOBAL FISHING FLEET
GLOBAL FISHING EFFORT
FISHERS
FISH STOCKS RECOVERY
SUSTAINABLE FISHING
CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS
Online Access:https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/347431487184280381/the-sunken-billions-revisited-progress-and-challenges-in-global-marine-fisheries
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24056

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https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/347431487184280381/the-sunken-billions-revisited-progress-and-challenges-in-global-marine-fisheries
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24056

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