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Snapshot: The economic value of Canadian fisheries

Snapshot: The economic value of Canadian fisheries

Data from Statistics Canada’s 2011 Census and National Household Survey provide detailed insight into the value of Canadian fisheries.

Dr. Sumaila meets with Prince Charles at St. James Palace in March 2011. (Photo courtesy of R. Sumaila)

Dr. Rashid Sumaila meets with Prince Charles

Dr. Rashid Sumaila and Prince Charles discuss how to sustain the world’s fisheries on July 10, 2014 at the St James Palace, London.

Teh LSL, Teh LCL, Sumaila UR (2013) A Global Estimate of the Number of Coral Reef Fishers. PLoS ONE 8(6): e65397. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0065397

Overfishing threatens coral reefs worldwide, yet there is no reliable estimate on the number of reef fishers globally. We address this data gap by quantifying the number of reef fishers on a global scale, using two approaches – the first estimates reef fishers as a proportion of the total number of marine fishers in a […]