Economic Telecoupling of Tropical Fisheries (IMAGE)
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Annual average value (US$ million) of fish exports from Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs) (panel a), Brazil (panel b) and Africa (panel c) to their main trading partners for 2014-2018 (left), and annual average landed values (US$ billions) of fish caught in the three corresponding groups of exclusive economic zones (EEZs) by the countries and territories in those regions and by distant-water fishing nations between 2007 and 2016 (right). There are close linkages between the tropical regions and the extratropical nations through trade and distant-water fishing, indicating that any climate-related changes to tropical fisheries have socio-economic implications for many extratropical nations. Note that values from the Pacific Islands region are for tuna only, and the catch values refer to tuna caught from the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Convention Area, which is larger than the combined EEZs of PICTs (see Supplementary Tables 1,4-8). Source of data for panel a: Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency.
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Lam et al, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
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