NCEAS Working Group publication wins Sustainability Science Award from ESA

photo of fishermen in heavy duty clothing working to sort their catch aboard a large fishing boat [From ESA press release]: The Ecological Society of America (ESA) awarded the 2011 Sustainability Science Award to the paper “Rebuilding Global Fisheries,” published in Science in 2009. The study--resulting from collaboration between scientists who initially had conflicting opinions about future scenarios for the sustainability of global fisheries--integrates the data, methods and analyses of a diverse group to address controversies and form a consensual view regarding a long-standing issue in global food security.

Read the full press announcement, including all of ESA’s 2011 award winners.

ESA's Sustainability Science Award is given to the authors of a scholarly work that makes the greatest contribution to the emerging science of ecosystem and regional sustainability through the integration of ecological and social sciences.

The 2011 winners are:

Worm, B., Hilborn, R., Baum, J.K., Branch, T.A., Collie, J.S., Costello, C., Fogarty, M.J., Fulton, E.A., Hutchings, J.A., Jennings, S., Jensen, O.P., Lotze, H.K., Mace, P.M., McClanahan, T.R., Palumbi, S.R., Parma, A.M., Rikard, D., Rosenberg, A.A., Zeller, D. & Minto, C.
Rebuilding Global Fisheries
Science 325 pp.578-585 (31 Jul 2009)

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Descriptions of the research project and related Distributed Graduate Seminar that produced this paper

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Rebuilding Fisheries Website