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if a fleet has 10 boats today, one generation later, the same 10 boats have the fishing power of 20 vessels, and of 40 in the next generation.

Technological advances allow fleets to double fishing capacity

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Tuesday, September 17, 2019, 22:50 (GMT + 9)

Technological advances are allowing commercial fishing fleets to double their fishing power every 35 years and put even more pressure on dwindling fish stocks, new research has found.

Researchers from the Sea Around Us initiative at the University of British Columbia analyzed more than 50 studies related to the increase in vessels’ catching power and found that the introduction of mechanisms such as GPS, fishfinders, echo-sounders or acoustic cameras, has led to an average two per cent yearly increase in boats’ capacity to capture fish.

“This means that if a fleet has 10 boats today, one generation later, the same 10 boats have the fishing power of 20 vessels. The next generation, they have the power of 40 boats, and so on,” said Deng Palomares, the Sea Around Us project manager and lead author of the study, which was published yesterday in Ecology and Society.

Simulated increase in effective effort over a 50-yr period comprising a mixture of background rates (% technological creep = 1 and 2%) and rapid increases (5%) due to technological improvements. The average rate of technological creep (2.41%; dotted line) is obtained by comparison of the beginning and end estimates of effective effort but can be approximated by an average rate of increase weighted by the number of years (2.42%).

An increase in fishing power is known as ‘technological creep’ and it’s usually ignored by fisheries managers who are in charge of regulating how many days and hours and technique each vessel under their oversight is supposed to fish in a given period.

“This ‘technological creep’ is also ignored by most fisheries scientists in charge of proposing policies,” said Daniel Pauly, the Sea Around Us principal investigator. “They tend to conduct short-term studies that only take into account nominal effort, which is, for example, the number of boats that fish using longlines in one year, employing ‘x’ number of people. However, they are disregarding the effective effort those vessels are deploying thanks to the technology that allows them to either maintain their catches or catch more fish.”

Relationship between technological creep and the period to which the estimate applies. C% = percent change in technological creep per year; ln(C%) = 2.625 − 0.511 × ln(Year) (r2 = 0.153, r = −0.3906, df = 49, P < 0.0046). The X on the regression line indicates an average fishing power increase of 3.4% for the average period of 15 yr; dashed lines indicate the 95% confidence limits.

In their paper, Palomares and Pauly propose a new equation that allows fisheries managers and scientists to easily estimate technological creep precisely and determine a fleet’s effective effort.

“This is important because if you don’t understand that the increase in power is happening, then you don’t understand that you can deplete a stock,” Pauly said. “We already know that marine fisheries catches have been declining by 1.2 million tonnes per year since 1996 so, by prompting boats to fish deeper and farther into the high seas, these new technologies are only helping the industry compensate for the diminishing abundance of fish populations.”


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