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Provenance of global seafood
Citation
Watson, RA and Green, BS and Tracey, SR and Farmery, A and Pitcher, TJ, Provenance of global seafood, Fish and Fisheries, 17, (3) pp. 585-595. ISSN 1467-2960 (2016) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
Knowing where and how seafood is caught or farmed is central to empowering consumers, and the importers that supply them, with informed choices. Given the wide-ranging, complex and at times commercially sensitive nature of global seafood trade, it can prove very challenging to link imported seafood with information about its provenance. The databases involved are incomplete, at times vague and not harmonized. Here, we present a first attempt to link all global seafood imports through a virtual marketplace to exports and map their origins. Considerable work remains to ground-truth the specific origins of all seafood commodities. We illustrate the flow of seafood and its evolution since the 1970s when supporting records began. This work allows the impact of fishing or marine farming to be associated with seafood imports.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | export, import, mapping, seafood |
Research Division: | Agricultural, Veterinary and Food Sciences |
Research Group: | Fisheries sciences |
Research Field: | Aquaculture and fisheries stock assessment |
Objective Division: | Animal Production and Animal Primary Products |
Objective Group: | Fisheries - wild caught |
Objective Field: | Fisheries - wild caught not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Watson, RA (Professor Reginald Watson) |
UTAS Author: | Green, BS (Associate Professor Bridget Green) |
UTAS Author: | Tracey, SR (Associate Professor Sean Tracey) |
UTAS Author: | Farmery, A (Ms Anna Farmery) |
ID Code: | 104811 |
Year Published: | 2016 (online first 2015) |
Funding Support: | Australian Research Council (DP140101377) |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 52 |
Deposited By: | IMAS Research and Education Centre |
Deposited On: | 2015-11-20 |
Last Modified: | 2018-11-14 |
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