Changing the narrative and perspective surrounding marine fish

Martin, Angela Helen; Scheffold, Maike Iris Esther; O‘Leary, Bethan Christine

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105806

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“…Good fisheries management that prevents overfishing and the destruction of the seabed would not only help restore marine biodiversity and strengthen food security and livelihoods but would deliver multiple co-benefits through the ocean-climate nexus. These include enhancing the carbon sequestration potential of marine organisms, building the climate resilience of marine ecosystems and the communities that depend on them, and not allowing fisheries to deplete the carbon sequestration value of marine life 81 . If fish stocks are allowed to recover, less fuel will be needed to catch the same quantity of fish, while the cessation of bottom trawling would simultaneously reduce GHG emissions, bycatch and ecosystem degradation.…”

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Good fisheries management is good carbon management

Andersen,

Cavan,

Cheung

et al. 2024

npj Ocean Sustain

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Climate change is causing persistent, widespread, and significant impacts on marine ecosystems which are predicted to interact and intensify. Overfishing and associated habitat degradation have put many fish populations and marine ecosystems at risk and is making the ocean more vulnerable to climate change and less capable of buffering against its effects. In this Perspective, we review how overfishing is disrupting the important role of marine vertebrates in the ocean carbon cycle, causing disturbance and damage to the carbon-rich seabed, and contributing to rising greenhouse gas emissions through fuel use. We discuss how implementing good fisheries management can reduce or remove many of the impacts associated with overfishing, including fish stock collapse, destruction of seabed habitats, provision of harmful subsidies and accompanying socio-economic impacts. Managing overfishing is one of the most effective strategies in protecting ocean carbon stores and can make an important contribution to climate mitigation and adaptation.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Good fisheries management is good carbon management

Andersen,

Cavan,

Cheung

et al. 2024

npj Ocean Sustain

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“…Topic I: Blue carbon plays a prominent role in ocean and climate change issues Inextricably linked to climate, the oceans play a key role in climate change mitigation and adaptation [135][136][137][138][139][140], and blue carbon plays a potential contributing or even the predominant role [11,55,[140][141][142][143][144][145][146][147][148][149][150][151]. As part of the ongoing discussions regarding the oceanclimate nexus and blue carbon, more attention is being paid to carbon cycling and storage processes in the open ocean as a potential solution to climate change [107].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Topic II: Blue carbon ecosystem assessment and sustainable management Seagrasses (dead seagrass, seagrass beds, seagrass meadows), mangroves, coral reefs, kelps, saltmarshes, macroalgae (or seaweeds), benthic microalgae, etc., constitute the blue carbon ecosystem, whose comprehensive benefit is also determined by the size, quality, and extent of the ecosystem [69,71,76,104,110,124,135,136,161,164,165,168,[170][171][172][173][174][175][176][177][178][179][180][181][182][183][184]. Due to the structural complexity of coastal vegetation ecosystems (root systems, dense vegetation, and leafy canopy in seagrass systems), salt marshes, mangroves, and seagrass beds are capable of efficiently capturing sediment and associated organic carbon from both riverine and oceanic sources [164].…”

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“…The coastal blue carbon projects around the world serve as a testing ground for new ideas, methodologies, and funding mechanisms [79]. When blue carbon is incorporated into the process of developing the marine industry [136,166,289], it can provide solutions to some of the current challenges, such as a lack of carbon sites and a lack of funds. By developing the mariculture industry, for example, increasing the application scenarios for blue carbon, we can achieve the goal of increasing carbon sinks; (4) Blue carbon policies should be developed and coordinated at the regional level.…”

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A Systematic Review and Global Trends on Blue Carbon and Sustainable Development: A Bibliometric Study from 2012 to 2023

Pang,

Abdul Majid,

Perera

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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Halfway through Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, only 15 percent of the goals have been reached. As a carbon storage and climate change mitigation mechanism, blue carbon is closely related to sustainable development goals and plays an important role in the global carbon cycle. In spite of its great potential, blue carbon still faces several challenges in terms of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Herein, this review aims to retrieve all known impacts of blue carbon on sustainable development through research published on the Web of Science from 2012 to 2023 using a sequence of bibliometric analyses. Keywords such as “blue carbon” and “sustain*” (including “sustainability”, “sustainable”, etc.) were used for article extraction. CiteSpace, a science mapping tool, was used to capture and visually present the bibliometric information in the research about blue carbon and sustainable development. Upon reviewing the existing literature, no study has concentrated on bibliometrically analyzing and visualizing studies about blue carbon and sustainable development. This study sets out to fill this gap by examining the key areas of concentration in published works on blue carbon and sustainable development from 2012 to date. Moreover, the integration of blue carbon and sustainable development may help to develop supportive policies for marine carbon sinks. Despite the valuable contribution of this study to the blue carbon and sustainable development body of knowledge, generalizations of the results must be made cautiously due to the use of a single database, which in this case is the Web of Science.

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“…Poor health in wild animals may also reduce their ability to maintain ecosystems and play a part in providing ecosystem services, including pollination (e.g. Gazzea et al, 2023) and carbon sequestration, as recorded for example in elephants (Sandhage-Hofmann et al, 2021;Berzaghi et al, 2023) and cetaceans (Pershing et al, 2010;Martin et al, 2021;Martin et al, 2023;Durfort et al, 2022;Pearson et al, 2023). Furthermore, poor wild animal health and welfare can serve as an indicator of an unclean or unhealthy environment (Neo and Tan, 2017;Garcıá-Fernańdez et al, 2020;Tavalieri et al, 2020;Imagawa et al, 2023).…”

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confidence: 99%

A human right to healthy animals

Yeates

2024

Front. Anim. Sci.

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The United Nations has recognised a universal human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. This right should include the right to healthy animals within that environment because (a) logically animals are part of the environment and (b) poor animal health can affect human health through mechanisms such as pathogen transfer, ecosystem damage, unsustainable resource utilisation and greenhouse gas emissions. Current definitions of health and identified risk factors for animal and human health include physical, mental and environmental social factors. This simple logic might be challenged from perspectives of (1) humans waiving their own right to health; (2) purported conflicting priorities; and (3) concerns that animals also have rights, but these challenges do not refute the underlying argument that the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment includes a right to healthy animals.

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Changing the narrative and perspective surrounding marine fish

Cited by 5 publications

References 38 publications

Good fisheries management is good carbon management

Good fisheries management is good carbon management

A Systematic Review and Global Trends on Blue Carbon and Sustainable Development: A Bibliometric Study from 2012 to 2023

A human right to healthy animals

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