期刊
SUSTAINABILITY
卷 14, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su14031587
关键词
fish stock assessment; Pakistan; LBB method; length-frequency analysis; overfishing
资金
- Ocean University of China [201562030]
The marine fisheries resources of Pakistan have been significantly impacted in recent decades, primarily due to overfishing and the mass exclusion of small and older fish. This study suggests increasing mesh size and reducing the number of boats in order to promote sustainable development.
The marine fisheries resources of Pakistan have been drastically affected in the past few decades. Considering the limitations of previous studies and the data poor condition of the marine fisheries of Pakistan, this study employed the length-based Bayesian biomass (LBB) estimation method for analyzing the fisheries' representative length-frequency data of five exploited marine fish stocks (Nemipterus japonicus, Nemipterus randalli, Parascolopsis aspinosa, Saurida tumbil, and Lepturacanthus savala). The estimates of relative fishing mortality (F/M) are higher than unity in four stocks except for S. tumbil, indicating overfishing. However, the current values relative to unexploited biomass (B/B-0) are below 0.4, which indicates that the stock biomass is deficient in delivering maximum sustainable yield. Overfishing and the mass exclusion of small and older fish from stocks threaten to deplete the biomass of all species. Therefore, this study recommended that increasing the mesh size in commercial fisheries would increase both the catch and biomass of these species. The existing number of boats should be reduced to reduce fishing mortality and bring it back to the ratio of relative fishing mortality (F/M) equal or less than unity, for a sustainable level.
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