Michigan State University, 1405 S. Harrison Road, Room 115, East Lansing, MI, 48823, USA.
Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, 135 Duke Marine Lab Rd., Beaufort, NC, 28516, USA.
Ambio. 2021 May;50(5):981-989. doi: 10.1007/s13280-020-01451-4. Epub 2021 Jan 16.
The international development community is off-track from meeting targets for alleviating global malnutrition. Meanwhile, there is growing consensus across scientific disciplines that fish plays a crucial role in food and nutrition security. However, this 'fish as food' perspective has yet to translate into policy and development funding priorities. We argue that the traditional framing of fish as a natural resource emphasizes economic development and biodiversity conservation objectives, whereas situating fish within a food systems perspective can lead to innovative policies and investments that promote nutrition-sensitive and socially equitable capture fisheries and aquaculture. This paper highlights four pillars of research needs and policy directions toward this end. Ultimately, recognizing and working to enhance the role of fish in alleviating hunger and malnutrition can provide an additional long-term development incentive, beyond revenue generation and biodiversity conservation, for governments, international development organizations, and society more broadly to invest in the sustainability of capture fisheries and aquaculture.
国际发展界未能实现缓解全球营养不良目标。与此同时，各科学学科越来越一致认为，鱼类在粮食和营养安全方面发挥着至关重要的作用。然而，这种“将鱼作为食物”的观点尚未转化为政策和发展资金的优先事项。我们认为，将鱼类视为自然资源的传统框架强调经济发展和生物多样性保护目标，而将鱼类置于粮食系统视角下则可以促成创新性政策和投资，促进对营养敏感和社会公平的捕捞渔业和水产养殖。本文强调了为此目的需要研究和政策指导的四个支柱。最终，认识到并努力加强鱼类在缓解饥饿和营养不良方面的作用，可以为政府、国际发展组织和更广泛的社会提供除了创收和生物多样性保护之外的另一个长期发展激励，以投资于捕捞渔业和水产养殖的可持续性。
