Global marine capture fisheries are an underperforming global asset. The sunken billions study shows that the difference between the potential and actual net economic benefits from marine fisheries is in the order of $50 billion per year-equivalent to more than half the value of the global seafood trade. The cumulative economic loss to the global economy over the last three decades is estimated to be in the order of two trillion dollars. In many countries...
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The sunken billions : the economic justification for fisheries reform : Les milliards engloutis : la justification économique pour une réforme des pêches (French). PROFISH series Washington, DC: World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/911991468161091515