High-seas fish biodiversity is slipping through the governance net

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States at the United Nations have begun negotiating a new treaty to strengthen the legal regime for marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction. Failure to ensure the full scope of fish biodiversity is covered could result in thousands of species continuing to slip through the cracks of a fragmented global ocean governance framework.

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  1. Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

    Guillermo Ortuño Crespo, Daniel C. Dunn & Patrick N. Halpin

  2. Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    Matthew Gianni

  3. International Union for Conservation of Nature Global Marine and Polar Programme, Gland, Switzerland

    Kristina Gjerde

  4. Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, Paris, France

    Glen Wright

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G.O.C. led the study. The manuscript was written by G.O.C., D.C.D. M.G., K.G., G.W. and P.N.H.

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Crespo, G.O., Dunn, D.C., Gianni, M. et al. High-seas fish biodiversity is slipping through the governance net. Nat Ecol Evol 3, 1273–1276 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0981-4

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