期刊名称：Fisheries Centre Research Reports / University of British Columbia
印刷版ISSN：1198-6727
出版年度：2007
卷号：15
页码：69-69
出版社：University of British Columbia
摘要：Colombia has coasts on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, but its marine fisheries have been limited by the
relatively small size of commercially important stocks. However, fishery resources have traditionally been
exploited by coastal communities, and industrial fisheries have grown in recent years with the
intensification of tuna fishing in both oceans. The management of Colombia¡¯s fisheries has been hampered
by frequent administrative changes, which has notably led to the loss of parts of the official landings data.
We reconstructed Colombia¡¯s fisheries catches in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the period 1950-
2005. We used secondary sources of information to estimate missing data, and estimated subsistence
fishing and the unreported by-catches of the shrimp and tuna fisheries. Our results suggest that for the
period 1950-2004, the marine fisheries catches of Colombia may have been more than 1.8 times higher
then the landings reported by FAO on behalf of Colombia (1.4 times higher in the Colombian Pacific; 2.0
times higher in the Atlantic). The implications for management are discussed.
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