Fisheries, the inverted food pyramid

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Fisheries, the inverted food pyramid

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A global assessment of fishing patterns and fishing pressure from 110 different Ecopath models, representing marine ecosystems throughout the world and covering the period 1970 to 2007, show that human exploitation across trophic levels is highly unbalanced and skewed towards low productive species at high trophic levels, which are around two trophic levels higher than the animal protein we get from farming. Overall exploitation levels from low trophic species were less than 15% of production...

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Research paper

Research format

Journal article

Date created

2016

Creator

Kolding, J. / Bundy, A. / van Zwieten, P.A.M. / Plank, M.J.

URL

http://hdl.handle.net/10092/13012

Related subjects

Ecosystem approach to fisheries / Balanced harvesting / Exploitation rate / Food security / Ecopath / Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences / Fisheries sciences / Fisheries management

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