Dear Chan L.:

You were contacted as part of our survey on the management effectiveness of the world's fisheries and I would like to invite you to see the report, which was published in the Journal PlosBiology. The paper is free and can be located at:

http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000131

We also have a video describing the paper at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwG3whtgn64

The core results of the analysis were:

1) Only 7% of all coastal states in the world carried out rigorous assessments of the stocks and ecosystem effects of fishing, 1.2% also have transparent and participatory political processes to convert scientific recommendations into policy and less than 1% of the coastal states in the world also provide for an efficient process for the enforcement of regulations.

2) Policy transparency was the prime factor determining fisheries sustainability while in non-transparent systems subsidies also had an additional significant toll on sustainability.

3) In 33% of the poorest countries in the world, mostly countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific most of their commercial fishing is carried out by the fleets of the European Union, Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States.

I invite you to see detailed results in the paper.

Thanks for your attention and help if you participated in the survey,

Best wishes,

Camilo
Camilo Mora, Ph.D.
Department of Biology, Dalhouisie University, Halifax, Canada; Phone: 902-494-2146
http://as01.ucis.dal.ca/fmap/people.php?pid=53