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Let more big fish sink: Fisheries prevent blue carbon sequestration—half in unprofitable areas

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Contrary to most terrestrial organisms, which release their carbon into the atmosphere after death, carcasses of large marine fish sink and sequester carbon in the deep ocean. Yet, fisheries have extracted a massive amount of this “blue carbon,” contributing to additional atmospheric CO2 emissions. Here, we used historical catches and fuel consumption to show that ocean fisheries have released a minimum of 0.73 billion metric tons of CO2 (GtCO2) in the atmosphere since 1950. Globally, 43.5% of the blue carbon extracted by fisheries in the high seas comes from areas that would be economically unprofitable without subsidies. Limiting blue carbon extraction by fisheries, particularly on unprofitable areas, would reduce CO2 emissions by burning less fuel and reactivating a natural carbon pump through the rebuilding of fish stocks and the increase of carcasses deadfall.
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Gaël Mariani, William Cheung, Arnaud Lyet, Enric Sala, Juan Mayorga, et al.. Let more big fish sink: Fisheries prevent blue carbon sequestration—half in unprofitable areas. Science Advances , 2020, 6 (44), pp.eabb4848. ⟨10.1126/sciadv.abb4848⟩. ⟨hal-02993112⟩
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