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To ensure food security and nutritional quality for a growing world population in the face of climate change, stagnant capture fisheries production, increasing aquaculture production and competition for natural resources, countries must be accountable for what they consume rather than what they produce. To investigate the sustainability of seafood consumption, we propose a methodology to examine the impact of seafood supply chains across national boundaries: the seafood consumption footprint. The seafood consumption footprint is expressed as the biomass of domestic and imported seafood production required to satisfy national seafood consumption, and is estimated using a multi-regional input output model. Thus, we reconstruct for the first time the global fish biomass flows in national supply chains to estimate consumption footprints at the global, country and sector levels (capture fisheries, aquaculture, distribution and processing, and reduction into fishmeal and fish oil) taking into account the biomass supply from beyond national borders.
Jordi Guillen; Fabrizio Natale; Natacha Carvalho; John Casey; Johann Hofherr; Jean-Noël Druon; Gianluca Fiore; Maurizio Gibin; Antonella Zanzi; Jann Th. Martinsohn. Global seafood consumption footprint. Ambio 2018, 48, 111 -122.
AMA StyleJordi Guillen, Fabrizio Natale, Natacha Carvalho, John Casey, Johann Hofherr, Jean-Noël Druon, Gianluca Fiore, Maurizio Gibin, Antonella Zanzi, Jann Th. Martinsohn. Global seafood consumption footprint. Ambio. 2018; 48 (2):111-122.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJordi Guillen; Fabrizio Natale; Natacha Carvalho; John Casey; Johann Hofherr; Jean-Noël Druon; Gianluca Fiore; Maurizio Gibin; Antonella Zanzi; Jann Th. Martinsohn. 2018. "Global seafood consumption footprint." Ambio 48, no. 2: 111-122.
Discarding is a common practice in fisheries. Total discards are estimated to be about 30 million tons, representing around 23% of worldwide catches. Discarding is an undesirable practice, not only because of the waste of resources, but also because of its contribution to the overexploitation of fish stocks. Several countries have already established discard bans, to different extents (e.g., Norway, Iceland, Chile, New Zealand). The EU’s landing obligation (discard ban) is a major measure of the latest reform of the Common Fisheries Policy for EU fisheries. It aims to reduce unwanted catches in EU fisheries, by incentivizing improved selectivity and restoring fish stocks to levels that can sustain the maximum production over time without harming the biodiversity and the capacity of future generations to obtain fish. However, banning discards will inevitably induce diverse short- and long-term ecological, economic, and social impacts, which may determine whether the landing obligation’s objectives will be achieved.
Jordi Guillen; Steven J. Holmes; Natacha Carvalho; John Casey; Hendrik Dörner; Maurizio Gibin; Alessandro Mannini; Paraskevas Vasilakopoulos; Antonella Zanzi. A Review of the European Union Landing Obligation Focusing on Its Implications for Fisheries and the Environment. Sustainability 2018, 10, 900 .
AMA StyleJordi Guillen, Steven J. Holmes, Natacha Carvalho, John Casey, Hendrik Dörner, Maurizio Gibin, Alessandro Mannini, Paraskevas Vasilakopoulos, Antonella Zanzi. A Review of the European Union Landing Obligation Focusing on Its Implications for Fisheries and the Environment. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (4):900.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJordi Guillen; Steven J. Holmes; Natacha Carvalho; John Casey; Hendrik Dörner; Maurizio Gibin; Alessandro Mannini; Paraskevas Vasilakopoulos; Antonella Zanzi. 2018. "A Review of the European Union Landing Obligation Focusing on Its Implications for Fisheries and the Environment." Sustainability 10, no. 4: 900.