Tag: fisheries

  • Fish Stocks Can Be Restored With Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management

    Fish Stocks Can Be Restored With Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management

    Decades of overfishing, together with nutrient pollution, rapid increase in hypoxia, ocean warming and acidification have put fish and harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in the western Baltic Sea at risk of collapse. But the commercially relevant stocks of cod (Gadus morhua), herring (Clupea harengus) and sprat (Sprattus sprattus) can be restored and prospects for marine…