Rapid Global Expansion of Invertebrate Fisheries: Trends, Drivers, and Ecosystem Effects
Figure 3
Status, drivers, and rate of development of invertebrate fisheries.
(A) Estimated status of invertebrate fisheries over time as expanding (green), fully exploited (yellow), over-exploited or restrictively managed (orange), and collapsed or closed (dark red/brown) based on catch data. Light green indicates fisheries with less than 10 years of data at year of assessment. These fisheries were not evaluated. (B) Distance from Hong Kong vs. year of first peak in catch for sea cucumber fisheries in different countries. Line represents least squares regression (r = 0.62, p = 0.002), and shaded area represents 95% confidence interval. Note that the analysis presented here differs from that reported in [21], see Text S1. (C) Meta-analysis of correlation between fishery initiation year and time to peak catch across 10 invertebrate taxonomic groups. Dots represent median correlation coefficients, lines represent 95% confidence intervals, and diamonds represent fixed (FE) and random effect (RE) pooled estimates (Text S1).