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Spending and Costs : Economic Costs of Overfishing
- Fishing and Jobs: Overfishing Threatens Sustainable Livelihoods
-- "The northwest Atlantic cod stocks off eastern Canada once sustained one of the world's largest fisheries, and supported livelihoods for many generations of Newfoundlanders. The cod are now considered "commercially extinct", so the cod fishery was closed down in 1992 when the Canadian Government moved to protect what remained of overfished stocks. The devastating result -- 20,000 people involved in fishing and shore-based activities lost their jobs virtually overnight."
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- North & Baltic Seas overfishing costs €400 million this year
-- "The overexploitation of fish stocks is a major economic problem as well as an ecological problem according to a new report published today by WWF. 'The Economics of a tragedy at Sea' shows that, at a cautious estimate, overfishing of cod alone in the North Sea and Baltic Sea will lead to a loss of income around 400 million Euro this year."
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- Overfishing Has Reached Staggering Proportions
-- The Commerce Department estimates that restoring depleted fisheries in the U.S. could double commercial fishing revenues, create 300,000 new jobs, and have a $25 billion impact on the overall economy.
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- Report on the World's Oceans
-- As a result of overcapacity in world fishing fleets, the costs of fishing have been estimated to exceed the gains by some $US 16 billion annually. For every single dollar earned in 1989, for example, the costs associated with catching the fish were $US1.77.
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- The dollars and sense of protecting the ocean
-- (Groundbreaking research released on the economics of marine protected areas) For the first time anywhere, the analysis of leading economists and ecologists has been brought together in one place, to examine the economics of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).
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- THE ENVIRONMENTAL & ECONOMIC COSTS OF OVERFISHING
-- If fishery resources were sustainably managed, total harvests could rise an additional 10 million metric tons, adding $16 billion to worldwide gross revenues annually. In the US, rebuilding overfished stocks could generate an $2.9 billion in revenue each year. Current revenues are $3.0-3.5 billion. Thus, sustainably managing fisheries in the US could nearly double revenues in this sector of the economy.
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