NPR Got Fish Story Wrong When They Claimed Stocks Declining Worldwide Due to Climate Change
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by John Sackton - December 23, 2015
NPR ran a story last week entitled 'Fish Stocks are Declining Worldwide and Climate Change is on the Hook'. We waited to cover this thinking our friends at Cfooduw.org, a group of fisheries scientists recruited by Professor Ray Hilborn of the University of Washington to respond to media inaccuracies, might weigh in. And they did.
Hilborn writes that "The scientific paper on which the NPR story was produced was much more subtle and did not say that fish stocks were in decline – that was invented by the authors of the NPR story", and they "got the big picture wrong, it isn’t climate change that is on the hook, it is the presence of effective fisheries management that determines the trend in abundance of fish stocks."
His full comment is below:
Comment by Ray Hilborn, University of Washington, @hilbornr
"Fish Stocks Are Declining Worldwide, And Climate Change Is On The Hook"
This is the title of a recent NPR posting — again perpetuating a myth that most fish stocks are declining.
Let’s look at the basic question: are fish stocks declining? ...
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