Reconciling biodiversity conservation and marine capture fisheries production

▶ Conservation and food production objectives are to some degree antagonistic. ▶ Reconciling these objectives and clarifying the trade-offs between them is a priority. ▶ Experience in reconciling conservation and food production objectives in terrestrial systems may be informative for the marine debate. ▶ Human impacts on marine ecosystems have had unintended and largely unknown consequences for marine food production. ▶ Effective ecosystem-based management requires better understanding of human impacts.