Nutrition: Fall in fish catch threatens human health (original) (raw)

Christopher Golden and colleagues calculate that declining numbers of marine fish will spell more malnutrition in many developing nations.

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  1. Christopher D. Golden is a research scientist in the Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and associate director of the Planetary Health Alliance at the Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,
    Christopher D. Golden
  2. and associate director of the Planetary Health Alliance at the Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,
    Christopher D. Golden
  3. Edward H. Allison is a professor at the School of Marine and Environment Affairs at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.,
    Edward H. Allison
  4. William W. L. Cheung is an associate professor in the Changing Ocean Research Unit; and director of the Nippon Foundation-Nereus Program, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.,
    William W. L. Cheung
  5. and director of the Nippon Foundation-Nereus Program, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.,
    William W. L. Cheung
  6. Madan M. Dey is professor at the Aquaculture/Fisheries Center of Excellence, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, USA.,
    Madan M. Dey
  7. Benjamin S. Halpern is professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA.,
    Benjamin S. Halpern
  8. Douglas J. McCauley is assistant professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA.,
    Douglas J. McCauley
  9. Matthew Smith is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,
    Matthew Smith
  10. Bapu Vaitla is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,
    Bapu Vaitla
  11. Dirk Zeller is a senior scientist and executive director at Sea Around Us, Global Fisheries Cluster, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.,
    Dirk Zeller
  12. Samuel S. Myers is a senior research scientist in the Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and director of the Planetary Health Alliance at the Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,
    Samuel S. Myers
  13. and director of the Planetary Health Alliance at the Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,
    Samuel S. Myers

Authors

  1. Christopher D. Golden
  2. Edward H. Allison
  3. William W. L. Cheung
  4. Madan M. Dey
  5. Benjamin S. Halpern
  6. Douglas J. McCauley
  7. Matthew Smith
  8. Bapu Vaitla
  9. Dirk Zeller
  10. Samuel S. Myers

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Correspondence toChristopher D. Golden.

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Golden, C., Allison, E., Cheung, W. et al. Nutrition: Fall in fish catch threatens human health.Nature 534, 317–320 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/534317a

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