Improvement of the characterization factor for biotic-resource depletion of fisheries
Résumé
Langlois et al. (2012; 2014a) proposed characterization factors (CF) for fish biotic resource extraction impact assessment at the species level. This paper is an improvement of this approach. In the present work, the CF depends on the Maximum Sustainability Yield (MSY), weighted by the ratio of the current total fishing effort to the fishing effort at the MSY value. Because this ratio often cannot be computed from current databases, it is here obtained from the ratio of total catches to MSY and roots of the parabola linking catches to fishing effort. The new version of the CF is proposed for 125 fish stocks. This work allows assessment of fisheries in the LCA formalism. It contributes to a better representation of the depletion of biotic resources.
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