title: Exploring patterns of seafood provision revealed in the global Ocean Health Index.
abstract: Sustainable provision of seafood from wild-capture fisheries and mariculture is a fundamental component of healthy marine ecosystems and a major component of the Ocean Health Index. Here we critically review the food provision model of the Ocean Health Index, and explore the implications of knowledge gaps, scale of analysis, choice of reference points, measures of sustainability, and quality of input data. Global patterns for fisheries are positively related to human development and latitude, whereas patterns for mariculture are most closely associated with economic importance of seafood. Sensitivity analyses show that scores are robust to several model assumptions, but highly sensitive to choice of reference points and, for fisheries, extent of time series available to estimate landings. We show how results for sustainable seafood may be interpreted and used, and we evaluate which modifications show the greatest potential for improvements.
authors.affiliation: Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada, k.kleisner@fisheries.ubc.ca.
authors.forename: Kristin M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Kleisner
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Longo
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Coll
authors.forename: Ben S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Halpern
authors.forename: Darren
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hardy
authors.forename: Steven K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Katona
authors.forename: Frédéric
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Le Manach
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pauly
authors.forename: Andrew A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Rosenberg
authors.forename: Jameal F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Samhouri
authors.forename: Courtney
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Scarborough
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Rashid Sumaila
authors.forename: Reg
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Watson
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zeller
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017756:Aquaculture; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000191:economics* / Q000379:methods; D017753:Ecosystem; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D005398:Fisheries / Q000191:economics*; D008954:Models, Biological; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D017747:Seafood