Recent plankton blooms suggest a warmer Arctic will provide a boost to fisheries there, too.
MPAs in nationally controlled waters — a favorite tool of many (but not all) marine conservation advocates — can let crippled fish stocks recover and even boost commercial fisheries.
Nearly 15% of the global population depends on seafood for protein, and according to professor of marine conservation, Dr. Callum Roberts, "protecting more ocean boosts prospects for fisheries.
In the mid-1970s the introduction of purse seining gave a further boost to the fishery off New South Wales and South Australia.
Now, a new method based on catch data and fish characteristics suggests that those unstudied stocks are declining but also that better management of global fisheries could boost the status of many of those stocks and could also increase the global sustainable fish harvest by as much as 40%.
The economy is now growing again, boosted by tourism and fisheries.
Fishermen and some state lawmakers are trying to refloat a proposal that would sink 200 to 300 creaking Redbird cars at sea, and in the process create artificial reefs intended to boost New Jersey's recreational fishery.
Scientific robustness by itself didn't boost the odds a fishery would be sustainable, say Camilo Mora of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, and his co-authors.
But a vast expansion of reserves around Australia's Great Barrier Reef shows that protected areas may not necessarily boost catches in well-managed fisheries.
In September 2004, the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, a presidential panel chaired by retired admiral James Watkins, recommended that Congress boost ocean research funding, improve fisheries management, and consolidate federal oversight over ocean policy.
