Below is material related to the course Global fisheries and seafood (SJA1506) at the University of Akureyri. Managing teacher is Hreiðar Þór Valtýsson. If you click this link you will also find information on e-books available at the university´s library.
Marine biology by Castro og Huber chapter 17.
Fishing history, written for the course
Commercial marine animals , written for the course
Fishing regions, written for the course
FAO Fishstatj: This is where the data on global harvest (fisheries and fish farming) is from
FAO Fishfinder: Detailed information on various fish species
FAO Fishery and Aquaculture Country Profiles: Information on most countries in the world
FIRMS: Information on global fish stocks
Fishbase: Information on all fishes in the world
Sealifebase: Information on all other marine creatures
Sea around us project: Detailed information on catch by all fishing nations
Fishsource: Information on most assessed fish stocks in the world
ICES advice: European stocks
NOAA Find a species: USA
NOAA Fishwatch: More USA
IMR: Norway
MFRI: Iceland
DFO: Canada
NAFO: USA, Canada and Greenland
Note that to be able to access the e-books in the university library you have to log into the VPN server
Commercial species , written for the course
Fishing countries, written for the course
A history of the North Atlantic fisheries. Volume 1: From early times to the mid-nineteenth century
A history of the North Atlantic fisheries - Volume 2: From the 1850s to the Early Twenty-First Century
Shifting baselines: the past and the future of ocean fisheries
Cod and Herring: The Archaeology and History of Medieval Sea Fishing
The North Atlantic fisheries, 1100-1976: National perspectives on a common resource
Beyond the Catch: Fisheries of the North Atlantic, the North Sea and the Baltic 900-1850
Cod: the ecological history of the North Atlantic fisheries
Perspectives on Oceans Past
Scaling Fisheries: The Science of Measuring the Effects of Fishing, 1855-1955
Salt: A World History (2003)
The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation (2001)
Zhao, K., Gaines, S. D., García Molinos, J., Zhang, M., & Xu, J. (2024). Effect of trade on global aquatic food consumption patterns. Nature Communications, 15(1), 1412. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45556-w
Torres-Romero, E. J., & Pérez Jiménez, J. C. (2024). Extinction risk of the world’s chondrichthyan fishes: A global assessment of the interplay between anthropogenic factors and marine protected areas. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 34(2), 685–701. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11160-023-09830-2
Jennings, S., Mélin, F., Blanchard, J. L., Forster, R. MCrona, B. I., Wassénius, E., Jonell, M., Koehn, J. Z., Short, R., Tigchelaar, M., Daw, T. M., et al. (2023). Four ways blue foods can help achieve food system ambitions across nations. Nature: 1–9. Nature Publishing Group.
Hilborn, R., Hively, D. J., Loke, N. B., Moor, C. L. de, Kurota, H., Kathena, J. N., Mace, P. M., Minto, C., Parma, A. M., Quiroz, J.-C., & Melnychuk, M. C. (2021). Global status of groundfish stocks. Fish and Fisheries, 22(5). https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12560
Chaudhary, C., Richardson, A. J., Schoeman, D. S., & Costello, M. J. (2021). Global warming is causing a more pronounced dip in marine species richness around the equator. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(15). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2015094118
Gephart, J. A., Henriksson, P. J. G., Parker, R. W. R., Shepon, A., Gorospe, K. D., Bergman, K., Eshel, G., Golden, C. D., Halpern, B. S., Hornborg, S., Jonell, M., Metian, M., Mifflin, K., Newton, R., Tyedmers, P., Zhang, W., Ziegler, F., & Troell, M. (2021). Environmental performance of blue foods. Nature, 597(7876), 360–365. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03889-2
MacLeod, M. J., Hasan, M. R., Robb, D. H. F., & Mamun-Ur-Rashid, M. (2020). Quantifying greenhouse gas emissions from global aquaculture. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 11679. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68231-8
Palomares, M. L. D., Froese, R., Derrick, B., Meeuwig, J. J., Nöel, S.-L., Tsui, G., Woroniak, J., Zeller, D., & Pauly, D. (2020). Fishery biomass trends of exploited fish populations in marine ecoregions, climatic zones and ocean basins. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 106896. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2020.106896
Hilborn, R., Amoroso, R. O., Anderson, C. M., Baum, J. K., Branch, T. A., Costello, C., Moor, C. L. de, Faraj, A., Hively, D., Jensen, O. P., Kurota, H., Little, L. R., Mace, P., McClanahan, T., Melnychuk, M. C., Minto, C., Osio, G. C., Parma, A. M., Pons, M., … Ye, Y. (2020). Effective fisheries management instrumental in improving fish stock status. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1909726116
Longo, S. B., Clark, B., York, R., & Jorgenson, A. K. (2019). Aquaculture and the displacement of fisheries captures. Conservation Biology, 33(4), 832–841. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13295
Clavelle, T., Lester, S. E., Gentry, R., & Froehlich, H. E. (2019). Interactions and management for the future of marine aquaculture and capture fisheries. Fish and Fisheries. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12351
Selig, E. R., Hole, D. G., Allison, E. H., Arkema, K. K., McKinnon, M. C., Chu, J., Sherbinin, A. de, Fisher, B., Glew, L., Holland, M. B., Ingram, J. C., Rao, N. S., Russell, R. B., Srebotnjak, T., Teh, L. C. L., Troëng, S., Turner, W. R., & Zvoleff, A. (2019). Mapping global human dependence on marine ecosystems. Conservation Letters, 12(2), e12617. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12617
Sumaila, U. R., Ebrahim, N., Schuhbauer, A., Skerritt, D., Li, Y., Kim, H. S., Mallory, T. G., Lam, V. W. L., & Pauly, D. (2019). Updated estimates and analysis of global fisheries subsidies. Marine Policy, 109, 103695. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2019.103695
Rousseau, Y., Watson, R. A., Blanchard, J. L., & Fulton, E. A. (2019). Evolution of global marine fishing fleets and the response of fished resources. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201820344. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1820344116
Minin, E. D., Brooks, T. M., Toivonen, T., Butchart, S. H. M., Heikinheimo, V., Watson, J. E. M., Burgess, N. D., Challender, D. W. S., Goettsch, B., Jenkins, R., & Moilanen, A. (2019). Identifying global centers of unsustainable commercial harvesting of species. Science Advances, 5(4), eaau2879. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aau2879
Halpern, B. S., Frazier, M., Afflerbach, J., Lowndes, J. S., Micheli, F., O’Hara, C., Scarborough, C., & Selkoe, K. A. (2019). Recent pace of change in human impact on the world’s ocean. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-47201-9
Greer, K., Zeller, D., Woroniak, J., Coulter, A., Winchester, M., Palomares, M. L. D., & Pauly, D. (2019). Global trends in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fuel combustion in marine fisheries from 1950 to 2016. Marine Policy, 107(103382). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.12.001
Watson, R. A., & Tidd, A. (2018). Mapping nearly a century and a half of global marine fishing: 1869–2015. Marine Policy, 93, 171–177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.04.023
Tickler, D., Meeuwig, J. J., Palomares, M.-L., Pauly, D., & Zeller, D. (2018). Far from home: Distance patterns of global fishing fleets. Science Advances, 4(8), eaar3279. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aar3279
Froese, R., Winker, H., Coro, G., Demirel, N., Tsikliras, A. C., Dimarchopoulou, D., Scarcella, G., Quaas, M., & Matz-Lück, N. (2018). Status and rebuilding of European fisheries. Marine Policy, 93, 159–170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.04.018
Parker, R. W. R., Blanchard, J. L., Gardner, C., Green, B. S., Hartmann, K., Tyedmers, P. H., & Watson, R. A. (2018). Fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions of world fisheries. Nature Climate Change, 8(4), 333–337. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0117-x
Mangin, T., Costello, C., Anderson, J., Arnason, R., Elliott, M., Gaines, S. D., Hilborn, R., Peterson, E., & Sumaila, R. (2018). Are fishery management upgrades worth the cost? PLOS ONE, 13(9), e0204258. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204258
Cheung, W. W. L. (2018). The future of fishes and fisheries in the changing oceans. Journal of Fish Biology, 92(3), 790–803. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.13558
Troell, M., Eide, A., Isaksen, J., Hermansen, Ø., & Crépin, A.-S. (2017). Seafood from a changing Arctic. Ambio, 46(3), 368–386. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-017-0954-2
Teh, L. S., Cheung, W. W., Christensen, V., & Sumaila, U. (2017). Can we meet the Target? Status and future trends for fisheries sustainability. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 29, 118–130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2018.02.006
Stock, C. A., John, J. G., Rykaczewski, R. R., Asch, R. G., Cheung, W. W. L., Dunne, J. P., Friedland, K. D., Lam, V. W. Y., Sarmiento, J. L., & Watson, R. A. (2017). Reconciling fisheries catch and ocean productivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(8), E1441–E1449. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1610238114
Melnychuk, M. C., Peterson, E., Elliott, M., & Hilborn, R. (2017). Fisheries management impacts on target species status. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(1), 178–183. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1609915114
Ding, Q., Chen, X., Hilborn, R., & Chen, Y. (2017). Vulnerability to impacts of climate change on marine fisheries and food security. Marine Policy, 83, 55–61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2017.05.011
Cashion, T., Tyedmers, P., & Parker, R. W. R. (2017). Global reduction fisheries and their products in the context of sustainable limits. Fish and Fisheries, 18(6), 1026–1037. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12222
Blasiak, R., Spijkers, J., Tokunaga, K., Pittman, J., Yagi, N., & Österblom, H. (2017). Climate change and marine fisheries: Least developed countries top global index of vulnerability. PLOS ONE, 12(6), e0179632. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179632
Anderson, J. L., Anderson, C. M., Chu, J., Meredith, J., Asche, F., Sylvia, G., Smith, M. D., Anggraeni, D., Arthur, R., Guttormsen, A., McCluney, J. K., Ward, T., Akpalu, W., Eggert, H., Flores, J., Freeman, M. A., Holland, D. S., Knapp, G., Kobayashi, M., … Valderrama, D. (2015). The Fishery Performance Indicators: A Management Tool for Triple Bottom Line Outcomes. PLoS ONE, 10(5), e0122809. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122809
Béné, C., Barange, M., Subasinghe, R., Pinstrup-Andersen, P., Merino, G., Hemre, G.-I., & Williams, M. (2015). Feeding 9 billion by 2050 – Putting fish back on the menu. Food Security, 7(2), 261–274. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-015-0427-z
Merino, G., Barange, M., Fernandes, J. A., Mullon, C., Cheung, W., Trenkel, V., & Lam, V. (2014). Estimating the economic loss of recent North Atlantic fisheries management. Progress in Oceanography, 129, 314–323. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2014.04.022
Barange, M., Merino, G., Blanchard, J. L., Scholtens, J., Harle, J., Allison, E. H., Allen, J. I., Holt, J., & Jennings, S. (2014). Impacts of climate change on marine ecosystem production in societies dependent on fisheries. Nature Climate Change, 4(3), 211–216. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2119
Natale, F., Hofherr, J., Fiore, G., & Virtanen, J. (2013). Interactions between aquaculture and fisheries. Marine Policy, 38, 205–213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2012.05.037