They have looked at half a century of data from fisheries around the world.
There are opportunities in everything from fisheries to tourism to energy.
Wal-Mart, for one, has vowed that by 2011, it will buy only from fisheries certified by the council.
There are currently 12 million small-scale fishermen across the world who derive vital income from fisheries.
To make the task more manageable, they decided to press ahead in 11 "priority sectors", from fisheries to aviation.
A growing proportion of agricultural output has also come from noncrop sources, particularly from fisheries, livestock, and forest products.
A Blue Tick indicates fish from fisheries certified by the Marine Stewardship Council (020-7350 4000, msc.org).
Their key features have been observed in a wide variety of managed systems, from fisheries to global climate control agreements.
Overall, 70% of survey respondents stated that the project activities could not compete with the income gained from fisheries.
For now, Morrissey has yet to respond to a statement from fisheries minister Gail Shea, who described the singer as "brainwashed by decades of propaganda".
In south-east Asia, harvests from fisheries could drop by nearly a third by 2050 if emissions are not severely curtailed.
