Disparities between sustainability of country-level seafood production and consumption

Ensuring the sustainability of seafood is increasingly important for supporting food security and stable livelihoods in the face of a growing human population. A country's seafood sustainability is often defined by how it manages its fisheries stocks; however, growth in the volume and complexit...

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Published in:PloS one 2024-12, Vol.19 (12), p.e0313823
Main Authors: Blincow, Kayla M, Haynie, Alan C, Semmens, Brice X
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aquaculture
Biology and Life Sciences
Commerce
Commercial fishing
Conservation of Natural Resources
Datasets
Earth Sciences
Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Enforcement
Estimates
Exports
Fish
Fisheries
Fisheries - economics
Fisheries management
Fishing
Food
Food consumption
Food Security
Food Supply
Health care disparities
Human populations
Humans
International trade
Internationality
Management
Medicine and Health Sciences
Seafood
Seafood - economics
Seafood industry
Sustainability
Sustainable development
Sustainable fisheries
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Summary:Ensuring the sustainability of seafood is increasingly important for supporting food security and stable livelihoods in the face of a growing human population. A country's seafood sustainability is often defined by how it manages its fisheries stocks; however, growth in the volume and complexity of global seafood trade has created an increasing disconnect between the sustainability of a country's seafood production and their seafood consumption. Using a global seafood trade database, we demonstrate wide differences between country-specific sustainability of produced versus consumed seafood. Our findings suggest that countries most consistently considered leaders in seafood production sustainability will inevitably consume seafood held to lower sustainability standards through their participation in the global seafood trade network. This issue is exacerbated by an inability to accurately trace the origins of seafood products based on current international trade reporting practices. Our analysis suggests that improved international seafood tracing and sustainability metrics that account for both production and consumption are critical to future efforts to manage global seafood sustainability.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0313823