Global seafood trade flows and developing economies: Insights from linking trade and production

Wealthy countries dominate industrial fishing

“…The patterns of industrial fishing effort within EEZs derived using these AIS-based techniques reinforce and extend conclusions drawn elsewhere using other methodologies and data sources. For example, analyses of fisheries production and trade data reveal a persistent trend whereby wealthy nations fish in the waters of less wealthy nations, but not vice versa ( 28 , 29 ). The relatively recent emergence of the capacity to track industrial fishing effort using AIS prevents examination of the history of this buildup.…”

“…The relatively recent emergence of the capacity to track industrial fishing effort using AIS prevents examination of the history of this buildup. Elsewhere, however, it has been suggested that the ascendancy in dominance of more wealthy nations fishing within the waters of less wealthy nations (for example, Europe in Northwest Africa) has occurred within the last several decades ( 28 ).…”

“…This observation requires explicit consideration in the analysis of development policy and strategy where fisheries governance intersects with food and nutrition policy, trade policy (export promotion, import substitution), wealth creation and economic growth, job creation, and technological innovation. There has been considerable productive and healthy debate concerning how the dominance of higher-income fishing in lower-income nations EEZs shapes these agendas ( 19 , 21 , 28 , 35 ). These perspectives are diverse and sometimes conflicting.…”

Ecosystems say good management pays off

“…Given that 59% of all the large marine ecosystems and all the high seas FAO areas are under shared management, and there are already concerns over transboundary species (e.g., Thornton et al., ), these kinds of understandings will be important for managers located on one side or another of a jurisdictional divide. This will be particularly important given that it is likely that there will be jurisdictional differences in terms of food security (Blanchard et al., ), trade policy (Watson, Nichols, Lam, & Sumaila, ), research capacity (as captured by UNESCO statistics on the Researchers in R&D per million people; https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.SCIE.RD.P6?view=map), societal valuation of conservation (Balmford et al., ; do Paço, Alves, Shiel, & Filho, ; Schultz et al., ; Snyman, ), etc. Such differences may well even lead to tension or open conflict (McClanahan, Allison, & Cinner, ).…”

Estructura del consumo de pescado en España

“…Asimismo, el comercio mundial ha cambiado de centro de gravedad: ha pasado del norte al sur y del Atlántico al Pacífico. O sea, se ha producido un cambio muy notable en la geografía de los intercambios (Ghepart y Pace, 2015; Watson et al, 2017).…”