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Marine Ecosystem Support to Fisheries and Fish Trade

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Linking the Natural Environment and the Economy: Essays from the Eco-Eco Group

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The relationships between fish production in marine ecosystems and fish processed and traded in the economy is analyzed for Sweden’s foreign trade in herring, cod, salmon and fish meal for 1986. Estimates are made of direct and indirect energy requirements in the marine ecosystem and the economy to produce the traded fish products. A comparison is made of trade balances in economic terms, expressed as export and import prices and in energy terms, expressed in solar energy terms. In monetary terms imports are 2.5 times larger than exports, but in energy terms about 7.3 times larger than exports meaning that Sweden is receiving products and work performed in the marine ecosystems at a lower price than it is selling its own products. This indicates that Sweden is dependent on much larger ecosystem support areas performing necessary work than is reflected in standard economic evaluatioa The importance of considering such ecosystem support in economic decision-making and management of indigenous and foreign living marine resources is emphasized.

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    Carl Folke

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    Tomas Kåberger

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Hammer, M. (1991). Marine Ecosystem Support to Fisheries and Fish Trade. In: Folke, C., Kåberger, T. (eds) Linking the Natural Environment and the Economy: Essays from the Eco-Eco Group. Ecology, Economy & Environment, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6406-3_10

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