Estimating Global Catches of Marine Recreational Fisheries

Commercial fisheries catches by countries are documented since 1950 by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Unfortunately, this does not hold for marine recreational catches, of which only few, if any, estimates are reported to FAO. We reconstructed preliminary estimates of likely marine recreational catches for 1950—2014, based on independent reconstructions for 125 countries. Our estimates of marine recreational catches that are...