Overfishing of Inland Waters

By J. Allan, R. Abell, Z. Hogan, C. Revenga, B. W. Taylor, R. Welcomme, K. Winemiller. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Catch‐and‐release science and its application to conservation and management of recreational fisheries (2007, background): “The increased fishing effort, and possibly increased efficiency of contemporary anglers, is conducive to high exploitation, particularly in freshwater and coastal marine systems (Post, Sullivan, Cox, Lester, Walters, Parkinson, Paul, Jackson & Shuter 2002; Coleman, Figueira, Ueland & Crowder 2004; ”
Fish biodiversity and conservation in South America. (2016, background): “…land use changes, hydroelectric damming, water pollution, mining, urbanization and poor agricultural practices, in addition to overfishing, are causing rapid declines and threatening the extinction of many fish species in South America (Reis et al., 2003; Allan et al., 2005; Barletta et al., 2010).”
State of the world's freshwater ecosystems: physical, chemical, and biological changes. (2011, background): “Recent concern about the “global fisheries crisis” has focused almost exclusively on marine ecosystems, although the impacts of recreational fishing and overfishing of inland waters have garnered increased attention (61, 62).”
Intensive trapping and increased fish predation cause massive population decline of an invasive crayfish (2007, positive): “This initial increase followed by a large decline in catch rates with increasing effort is a standard sign of overexploitation (Allan et al., 2005).”
Documented and Potential Biological Impacts of Recreational Fishing: Insights for Management and Conservation (2006, background): “…activities such as stocking of hatchery-reared fish or fish introductions can also seriously affect fish, other wildlife and ultimately entire aquatic ecosystems (Pauly et al., 2001; Robinson and Frid, 2003; Allan et al., 2005; Dobiesz et al., 2005; Frank et al., 2005; Mullon et al., 2005).”
The social, economic, and environmental importance of inland fish and fisheries (2016, background): “However, not all inland capture fisheries and aquaculture operations have minimal environmental impacts or sustainable management.”
Impacts of hydroelectric dams on fishes and fisheries in tropical rivers through the lens of functional traits (2019, background): “As large, long-lived species, including migratory fishes and apex predators, are depleted, fisheries exploit smaller species with more resilient populations, a phenomenon referred to as ‘fishing down’ [49,50].”
Conservation biogeography of freshwater fishes: recent progress and future challenges (2010, background): “…(Jackson et al., 2001a,b), reservoirs trap 25% of the global sediment load before it reaches the oceans (Syvitski et al., 2005), river systems have been fragmented by c. 1 million dams globally (Nilsson et al., 2005), and many inland fisheries are vulnerable to collapse (Allan et al., 2005).”
Inland capture fishery contributions to global food security and threats to their future (2014, background): “Obtaining more accurate information about inland fisheries production is inherently a difficult process because most inland fisheries activity is small-scale in nature, highly dispersed, and generally unreported to governmental agencies (Allan et al., 2005).”
Disappearing giants: a review of threats to freshwater megafauna (2017, background): “Relative to marine species, the capture of freshwater species is limited; however, it provides a critical source of animal protein for many local people, especially for poor communities in remote and rural areas.(78,79) In Southeast Asia, which contributes more than a quarter of the total global inl”
Freshwater fishes of China: species richness, endemism, threatened species and conservation (2016, background): “Also, overfishing can lead to the phenomenon of ‘fishing down the food web’, the successive removal of the larger elements of a multispecies fish assemblage and their replacement by smaller elements of the assemblage, which are typically at lower trophic levels (Allan et al., 2005).”
Integrating physiology and life history to improve fisheries management and conservation (2006, background): “The combined factors of overfishing, single-species management and delayed response to environmental signals have led to the undisputed decline of marine (Ludwig et al. 1993; Pauly et al. 2002) and freshwater (Cowx 2002; Allan et al. 2005) fisheries.”
Freshwater Commercial Bycatch: An Understated Conservation Problem (2011, background): “Abundance and conservation status of the Yangtze finless porpoise in the Yangtze River, China.”