• Geography, Medicine
• Published in Science 1998
• DOI:10.1126/science.279.5352.860

Fishing down marine food webs

@article{Pauly1998FishingDM,
  title={Fishing down marine food webs},
  author={Pauly and Christensen and Dalsgaard and Froese and Torr{\`e}s},
  journal={Science},
  year={1998},
  volume={279 5352},
  pages={
          860-3
        }
}

• Pauly, Christensen, +2 authors Torrès

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… CONTINUE READING

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