Encourage sustainability by giving credit for marine protected areas in seafood certification

Sarah E Lester; Christopher Costello; Andrew Rassweiler; Steven D Gaines; Robert Deacon

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001730

Encourage sustainability by giving credit for marine protected areas in seafood certification

PLoS Biol. 2013 Dec;11(12):e1001730. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001730. Epub 2013 Dec 10.

Authors

Sarah E Lester¹, Christopher Costello, Andrew Rassweiler, Steven D Gaines, Robert Deacon

Affiliation

¹ Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America ; Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America.

Abstract

Sarah Lester et al. argue that sustainable seafood certification programs are missing a critical opportunity by failing to provide credit for marine protected areas. Fixing this oversight will improve the leverage of certification programs to drive sustainable fishing, with significant benefits to fish and fisheries.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Conservation of Natural Resources* / legislation & jurisprudence
Conservation of Natural Resources* / methods
Fisheries / legislation & jurisprudence*
Fishes
Models, Economic
Oceans and Seas
Seafood / standards*

Grants and funding

This work was supported by a grant from the Waitt Foundation (http://waittfoundation.org/sustainable-ocean-solutions). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.