News Summary February 26, 2018
Today's Main Story: Media Fails Again on Fisheries Data
Today's lead item from Seafood News publisher John Sackton reports that the recent article in Science highlighted data from the AIS vessel tracking system to show the global impact of industrial fishing. The authors state that vessels are now fishing in 55% of the world’s oceans, which is an area four times larger than occupied by onshore agriculture. The immediate popular conclusion was that this shows immense overfishing. But that is not what the data shows ...
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