Agreeing with FAO: Comments on SOFIA 2018
Agreeing with FAO: Comments on SOFIA 2018
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DOI：
10.1016/j.marpol.2018.12.009
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发表时间：
2019-02
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影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
D. Pauly;D. Zeller
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作者：
D. Pauly;D. Zeller
联合国粮食及农业组织（粮农组织）最近三份半年期《世界渔业和水产养殖状况》报告给人的印象是，它们淡化了全球海洋渔业渔获量下降趋势的严峻现实。相比之下，最近的索菲亚2018值得称赞，因为它似乎有不同的基调，并且更直接，更清楚地确定了海洋渔业面临的关键问题。这包括承认全球渔获量下降和一些数据缺陷，如各国向粮农组织报告的官方数据中的“现实主义”偏见，以及利用渔获量数据重建来说明这些数据缺陷，正如《我们周围的海洋》近二十年来所倡导的那样。粮农组织还承认其人员有限，因此需要与非政府实体合作。此外，我们祝贺粮农组织在《2018年世界索菲亚状况报告》中明确应对全球海洋渔业面临的两大挑战，即气候变化的影响和与中国庞大渔船队补贴相关的问题。我们赞赏粮农组织在2018年索菲亚状况报告中采取了不同的、更加开放的基调，其中甚至包括了动物福利方面的考虑，我们希望这标志着粮农组织与民间社会和学术界加强接触的新时期，以应对我们世界面临的重要渔业和可持续性挑战。
The last three bi-annual State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA) reports by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) gave the impression that they downplayed the stark reality of declining trends in global marine fisheries catches. In contrast, the most recent SOFIA 2018 deserves praise for seemingly striking a different tone, and for more directly and clearly identifying the key issues faced by marine fisheries. This includes the acknowledgment of globally declining catches and several data deficiencies, such as the ‘presentist’ bias in official data reported by countries to FAO, and the utility of catch data reconstructions in informing such data deficiencies, as advocated by theSea Around Usfor nearly two decades. FAO also acknowledges its personnel limitations and hence the need to collaborate with non-governmental entities. Further, we congratulate FAO on explicitly addressing in SOFIA 2018 two major challenges in global marine fisheries, namely the effects of climate change and the problems related to subsidies for the enormous Chinese fishing fleets. We applaud FAO for this different, more open tone in SOFIA 2018, which even includes animal welfare consideration, and we hope that it signals a new period of increased FAO engagement with Civil Society and academia, to address the important fisheries and sustainability challenges facing our world.