From food to feed: assessment of the stationary lift net fishery of East Hainan, Northern South China Sea

In the Asia-Pacific region, the increasing demand for low value/trashfish as feed for mariculture drives unsustainable fisheries on already overexploited marine resources. The mariculture demand may also affect artisanal nearshore fisheries operating in shallow nursery grounds, e.g., lift net fisheries, but little is known about how they work. We describe the stationary lift net artisanal fishery on the East coast of Hainan Island(northern South China Sea)...