Jennifer Jacquet, Ph.D. student with the Sea Around Us project at the UBC Fisheries reports that Tanzania used to be two countries. Now, Tanzania still has two sets of fisheries data and two options for reporting their fish catch: report it all (accurate) or report only half (inaccurate). Currently, only the mainland reports their fish internationally; Zanzibar's fish are missing from the statistics. http://scienceblogs.com/shiftingbas...
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Shifting Baselines : Zanzibar's Missing Fish
Jennifer Jacquet, Ph.D. student with the Sea Around Us project at the UBC Fisheries reports that Tanzania used to be two countries. Now, Tanzania still has two sets of fisheries data and two options for reporting their fish catch: report it all (accurate) or report only half (inaccurate). Currently, only the mainland reports their fish internationally; Zanzibar's fish are missing from the statistics. http://scienceblogs.com/shiftingbas...
