Rapid worldwide depletion of predatory fish communities

By R. Myers, Boris Worm. Nature, 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Effects of biological, economic and management factors on tuna and billfish stock status (2017, methodology): “were used to suggest that industrial fishing pressure had reduced the abundance of tunas and 88 billfishes (and other ocean predators) by 90% from preindustrial levels (Myers and Worm 2003).”
Incentive-based Approaches to Sustainable Fisheries (2006, background): “Marine ecosystems are in global decline (Pauly et al. 1998; Pauly et al. 2002; Schiermeier 2002; Myers and Worm 2003; Pauly et al. 2003).”
Feeding 9 billion by 2050 – Putting fish back on the menu (2015, background): “…Caddy and Seijo 2005) was exaggerated (Grafton et al. 2010; Hilborn 2010) and that although the situation remains concerning in respect to many stocks, we are not likely to face the global collapse that had been announced by some biologists (e.g., Myers and Worm 2003; Worm et al. 2006; Pauly 2009).”
GLOBAL MARINE BIODIVERSITY TRENDS (2006, background): “to which populations have declined owing to human activities (78, 79).”
Trophic interactions in Zostera marina beds along the Swedish coast (2008, background): “The most serious and widespread anthropogenic disturbances in coastal ecosystems include eutrophication (Short & Wyllie-Echeverria 1996, Howarth et al. 2000) and overfishing (Jackson et al. 2001, Myers & Worm 2003).”
The ‘shifting baseline’ phenomenon: a global perspective (2008, background): “Recent estimates suggest that the global ocean has lost more than 90% of large predatory fishes over the past 50–100 years (Myers and Worm 2003), although such claims have been questioned by Hampton et al. (2005), Polachek (2006) and Walters (2003).”
Resilience, Robustness, and Marine Ecosystem-based Management (2008, background): “Fisheries and other resource systems have declined drastically (Pauly et al. 1998,2002, Myers and Worm 2003, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2006f, 2006g, Worm et al. 2006) as a result of overflshing, bycatch, habitat destruction, nutrient and chemical pollution, and selective fishing on apex…”
Matching Social and Ecological Systems in Complex Ocean Fisheries (2006, background): “Recently, there has been a parade of scientific articles about how we have overfished the ocean and how, in the process, we have dismantled the structure and functioning of its ecosystems (Pauly et al. 1998, Jackson et al. 2001, Myers and Worm 2003, Frank et al. 2005).”
Conservation Biology for All (2010, background): “Regional scale populations of large sharks worldwide have declined by 90% or more, and rapid declines of >75% of the coastal and oceanic Northwest Atlantic populations of scalloped hammerhead, white, and thresher sharks have occurred in the past 15 years (Baum et al. 2003; Myers and Worm 2003; Myers”
Coupled Human and Natural Systems (2007, background): “Fishing has had a substantial impact on populations of large marine fishes (34).”
Industrial fishing, no-take zones and endangered penguins (2012, neutral): “The development of industrial fishing in the 20th century has reduced the biomass of predatory fish globally to <10% of pre-industrial levels (Myers and Worm, 2003) and profoundly altered marine environments (Boehlert, 1996).”
Designing marine reserve networks for both conservation and fisheries management (2010, background): “Although these estimates are based on the extreme assumption that overexploitation has reduced local fished stocks to negligible levels infished areas, overexploitation does exist in many parts of the world (38, 84, 85), and increased local fishing pressure in response to displacement from reserves ”
The Importance of Krill Predation in the Southern Ocean (2016, background): “The many effects of this include an apparent reduction in demersal fish populations to levels far below those which were present in the 1960s (Myers and Worm 2003).”
Taking Institutions Seriously: Using the IAD Framework to Analyze Fisheries Policy (2005, background): “Many of the world's major fisheries are in poor shape, particularly the fisheries highly valued for migratory species and groundfish (Myers and Worm 2003 ).”
Historic diet change of the South American sea lion in Patagonia as revealed by isotopic analysis (2009, background): “Exploitation of marine ecosystems is causing a rapid depletion of top predators worldwide (Pauly et al. 1998, Jackson & Sala 2001, Myers & Worm 2003).”