Overfishing hits 11 of 12 Bahamian seafood staples, 73 years of catch data show

Overfishing hits 11 of 12 Bahamian seafood staples, 73 years of catch data show

Most of the Bahamas' signature seafood stocks are being fished harder than the sea can replace them, according to a new paper led by Sea Around Us researchers and published in Frontiers in Marine Science.

Eleven of twelve Bahamian seafood species are overfished, new study finds

Caribbean spiny lobster. Photo by James St. John, Wikimedia Commons. Most of The Bahamas’ signature seafood stocks are being fished harder than the sea can replace them, a new paper led by Sea Around Us researchers and published in Frontiers in Marine Science shows. These findings are the result of the assessment of 12 of the most commercially and culturally important marine species in the country and draw on reconstructed catch records spanning…