Thumbnail Image

Chronicle of Cuban marine fisheries (1935-1995) Trend analysis and fisheries potential

Year of publication 2000

Pages 27

Author Baisre, J.A.;Fishery and Aquaculture Economics and Policy Division

Product type Book (series)

ISBN 9251044104

Series title FAO Fisheries Technical Paper

Series number 0429-9345 - T394

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This technical paper presents an analysis of trends in the Cuban marine fishery resources as described by a data set that covers the 1935 to 1995 period. Despite the biases that undoubtedly exist in national fishery statistics and the low level of disaggregation for some groups of species, the extended data set offers a comprehensive picture of Cuban fisheries over 60 years and makes it possible to trace down the phase of development as well as the phase of greatest expansion of Cuban fisheries. The data set shows the sustained increase of catches from the mid-1950s to the 1970s, the decrease in the growth rate during the 1980s and, starting in the 1990s, the senescence of some important fisheries. In 1995, about 38.9 percent of the resources were in a senescent phase (with consequent declining catches), 48.7 percent were in a mature phase at a high exploitation level and only 12.4 percent were still in a developing phase with some possibility of increased catches; none of the fisher ies remained undeveloped. Hence, 87.6 percent of the fishery resources are in a critical stage from the point of view of fishery management and, therefore, there is an urgent need to control and reduce the fishing effort.

Cite this content as:

Baisre, J.A. Chronicles of Cuban marine fisheries (1935-1995). Trend analysis and fisheries potential. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper. No. 394. Rome, FAO. 2000. 26 p.

Language English

Also available in:

Related items

Showing items related by metadata.

  • No Thumbnail Available
    Book (series)
    Status of Interactions of Pacific Tuna Fisheries in 1995
    Proceeding of the Second FAO Expert Consultation on Interactions of Pacific Tuna Fisheries Shimizu, Japan 23 to 31 January 1995
    1996
    Also available in:
    No results found.
    This publication includes forty papers and two abstracts of papers presented at the Second FAO Expert Consultation on Pacific Tuna Fisheries held in Shimizu, Japan, from 23 to 31 January 1995. The topics of the papers include: · reviews of tuna fisheries interactions and their research including methods for their study, · new methods for studying tuna fisheries interactions and examination of their applicability, · case studies on tuna fisheries interactions, · analyses of tuna fisheri es involved in interactions and their management, and · an overview of FAO’s project that co-organized and co-sponsored the Consultation. A supplement of an indexed bibliography of papers on tuna and billfish tagging, which was printed separately, is also included. The objectives of the Consultation were to: · review and integrate the outcome of the studies on tuna fisheries interactions, · summarize the extent of tuna fisheries interactions and unresolved research problems, and · fo rmulate guidelines for research on tuna fisheries interactions. The understanding of tuna fisheries interactions was enhanced significantly by recent studies. However, the Consultation noted that the number of quantified interactions is still small due primarily to difficulties associated with evaluating such interactions. The papers providing supporting information for the conclusions of the Consultation are presented in this publication. Interactions were found to vary in significance depend ing on the biological characteristics of the species involved, the sizes of fish caught, the local and stock-wide rates of exploitation, and the distance among fisheries. In many of the studies presented, the inadequacy of fisheries data was stressed. In addition, the lack of understanding of movements of the fish being studied was noted in several papers. General qualitative guidelines presented in several discussion papers stressed that specifically-designed studies be undertaken to adequately quantify interactions. Well-designed tagging experiments were thought to provide the most reliable information about interactions. Guidelines for the collection of data, biological and ecosystem research, modelling, and alternative methodologies for studying tuna fisheries interactions are also included.
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Book (series)
    Chronicles of Marine Fishery Landings (1950-1994): Trend Analysis and Fisheries Potential 1996
    Also available in:
    No results found.
    World fishery landing statistics as disseminated by FAO have been completely revised for the period 1950-1969 and time series in the database have been extended backwards by 20 years so that the period covered is now 1950-1994. Through a preliminary analysis of trends, globally and by oceans, we attempt to demonstrate that these extended time series can be very useful in interpreting developments in the world’s fisheries and so help in assessing the present situation as well as for planning and policy-making for the future. Grouping the 200 most important resources into a few categories according to the shapes of their landings trends reveals a variety of patterns which seem to form different segments of a generalised fishery development model comprising undeveloped, developing, mature and senescent phases. The analysis demonstrates strikingly the succession of the passage of the majority of the world’s major resources through these phases, indicating the current general saturation of fisheries development and increasing overexploitation. Fisheries potential was estimated by predicting at which point the relative rate of increase of landings is zero, using the same generalised fishery development model applied to total fishery production data for marine fish and shellfish. The analysis was applied using data aggregated to three different levels, namely (1) a total for all oceans, (2) totals for each ocean, and (3) individual FAO major fishing areas. Estimated fishery potent ial for the world’s oceans increases as the level of aggregation of the data decreases, and the results indicate that marine fishery potential may be higher than has been assumed up to now. The areas and resources which might provide potential increases in production are identified.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Book (series)
    Trends in oceanic captures and clustering of large marine ecosystems
    Two studies based on the FAO capture database
    2003
    Also available in:
    No results found.
    Species items reported in the FAO capture fisheries production database have been classified as oceanic or living on the continental shelf. Catch trends of oceanic species, further subdivided into epipelagic and deep-water species, have been analysed over a 50-year period (1950-99) while statistics for shelf species have been re-assigned to large marine ecosystems (LMEs) for a shorter period (1990-99) and used to investigate catch patterns among the various LMEs. Oceanic fisheries constitut e, both in terms of number of species items and in quantities of recent catches, about 10% of global marine catches. Catches of epipelagic species (mostly tunas) and of deep-water species (mostly Gadiformes) have been continuously increasing and reached 8.6 million tons in 1999. Oceanic catches by distant water fleets (DWFs), mostly targeting tunas, have been decreasing in recent years although their share of total DWF catches has increased due to the concurrent drop of non-oceanic DWF catches. Trends of oceanic catches and the contribution of DWFs are examined for all FAO marine fishing areas which show different patterns, mainly depending upon whether they are temperate or tropical areas. Eleven clusters of LMEs have been identified on the basis of similarities in their catch composition classified into eleven species groupings. For each cluster, the distinguishing catch pattern and recent trends by species groupings in each LME are discussed, and considered in relation to infor mation on primary productivity and the abiotic characteristics of the LME.
Show more

Users also downloaded

Showing related downloaded files

No results found.