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https://hdl.handle.net/2115/94251

Status of Southeast Asian fisheries: distinctive characteristics and pathways to sustainable fisheries

英語

Overfishing

2025-03-18

2026-02-05

Fisheries Science

91

205-216

Southeast Asia is a vast tropical region composed of 11 countries and has experienced uniquely prominent development, particularly in capture fisheries. The large exclusive economic zones and continental shelf areas heavily support the region’s fisheries, with capture fisheries production having steadily increased over the past 30 years, outperforming other regions. The percentage of fishers as a share of the total population in this region is 3.4 times that of the world average. The region’s per capita supply of aquatic foods is 1.9 times higher than the world average. Despite warnings of overfishing for decades, the region has a 3.6 times higher ratio of underfished marine stocks as compared with the global estimate, primarily owing to the prevalence of artisanal or small-scale fisheries and nonselective fisheries, which are supported by high biodiversity. However, the growth of the per capita supply of aquatic foods has plateaued in recent years. As Southeast Asia’s population is expected to stabilize in about the year 2055 at 113% of its current size, the demand for aquatic food products will likely level off, enabling a transition toward sustainable fisheries.

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