Jennifer Devine Quotes (6 Quotes)

They meet the IUCN World Conservation Union criteria for being critically endangered.

The declines occurred on a timescale equal to, or slightly less than, a single generation of these species.

A recent article in Science has shown how a marine protected area in shallower habitat has been effective. Additionally, we have seen the call for reduced fishing mortality on deep-sea stocks in the Northeast Atlantic and believe that could be an appropriate conservation measure.

No population fluctuates as much as 90 naturally, especially in such a stable environment as the deep-sea. Any changes made to halt these population declines would not be evident for several generationsapproximately 100 years.

We're talking about species whose generation time, which is the amount of time (they need) to replace themselves, is 17 to 21 years. So it will be a century before we see any recovery.

We're learning time and time again as fishery after fishery collapses that you reach such low numbers that they can be considered extinct.