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SUBMITTER: Kleisner KM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3824877 | biostudies-other | 2013 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Ambio 20131201 8
Sustainable provision of seafood from wild-capture fisheries and mariculture is a fundamental component of healthy marine ecosystems and a major component of the Ocean Health Index. Here we critically review the food provision model of the Ocean Health Index, and explore the implications of knowledge gaps, scale of analysis, choice of reference points, measures of sustainability, and quality of input data. Global patterns for fisheries are positively related to human development and latitude, wh ...[more]