Widely Adopted Indicator of Fisheries Health Questioned

Widely Adopted Indicator of Fisheries Health Questioned
Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:00:00 -0600

The most widely adopted measure for assessing the state of the world's oceans and fisheries led to inaccurate conclusions in nearly half the ecosystems where it was applied.

The new analysis was performed by an international team of fisheries scientists, and is reported in this week's issue of the journal Nature.

"Applied to individual ecosystems it's like flipping a coin; half the time you get the right answer and half the time you get the wrong answer," said ...

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