TM 183 Table 2

Home Table 2. Primary and secondary driving forces of biomass yields for 29 LMEs. (Driving forces based on published expert assessments in LME volumes listed in Table 1. Annual biomass yields based on 1990-1999 mid-decadal data (i.e., 1995) from Garibaldi and Limongelli (2003), unless specified otherwise.)
LME	Driving Force		Annual Biomass Yield (mmt)	Source(s)	Volume
	Primary	Secondary
Humboldt Current	climate	fishing	16.0	Alheit and Bernal	5
				Wolff et al.	12
South China Sea	fishing	climate	10.0	Pauly and Christensen	5
East China Sea	fishing	climate	3.8	Chen and Shen	8
North Sea	fishing	climate	3.5	McGlade	10
East Bering Sea	inconclusive	inconclusive	2.1	Schumacher et al.	12
Bay of Bengal	fishing	climate	2.0	Dwividi	5
				Hazizi	7
Okhotsk Sea^a	climate	fishing	2.0	Kusnetsov et al.	5
Canary Current	climate	fishing	1.8	Roy and Cury	12
				Bas	5
Norwegian Shelf	climate	fishing	1.5	Ellertsen et al.	3
				Blindheim and Skjoldal	5
Iceland Shelf	climate	fishing	1.3	Astthorsson and Vilhjálmsson	10
Benguela Current	climate	fishing	1.2	Crawford et al.	2
				Shannon and O'Toole	12
Gulf of Thailand	fishing	climate	1.1	Pauly and Chuenpagdee	12
Mediterranean	fishing	eutrophication	1.1	Caddy	5
Sea of Japan^b	climate	fishing	1.0	Terazaki	8
Gulf of Mexico	fishing	climate	0.9	Richards and McGowan	2
				Brown et al.	4
				Shipp	9
Guinea Current	climate	fishing	0.9	Binet and Marchal	5
				Koranteng and McGlade	11
Baltic Sea	fishing	eutrophication	0.8	Kullenberg	1
				Jansson	12
California Current	climate	fishing	0.7	MacCall	1
				Lluch-Belda et al.	12
U.S. Northeast Shelf	fishing	climate	0.7	Sissenwine	1
				Murawski	6
				Sherman et al.	10
Scotian Shelf	fishing	climate	0.7	Zwanenburg et al.	10
				Zwanenburg	12
Black Sea	eutrophication	fishing	0.5	Caddy	5
				Daskalov	12
Barents Sea	climate	fishing	0.5	Skjoldal and Rey	2
				Borisov	4
				Blindheim and Skjoldal	5
				Matishov et al.	12
Caribbean Sea	fishing	climate	0.4	Richards and Bohnsack	3
Iberian Coastal	climate	fishing	0.3	Wyatt and Perez-Gandaras	2
Newfoundland-Labrador	fishing	climate	0.2	Rice et al.	10
Yellow Sea^c	fishing	climate	0.2	Tang	2
				Tang	12
Great Barrier Reef	fishing	climate	0.1	Brodie	12
West Greenland Shelf	climate	fishing	0.1	Hovgård and Buch	3
				Pederson and Rice	10
Faroe Plateau	climate	fishing	0.1	Gaard et al.	10
^aAnnual biomass yield data based on 1962-1982 mid-decadal data (i.e., 1972) from Kusnetsov et al. (1993). ^bAnnual biomass yield data based on 1980-1990 mid-decadal data (i.e., 1985) from Terazaki (1999). ^cAnnual biomass yield data based on 1952-1992 mid-decadal data (i.e., 1972) for demersal species from Tang (2003).

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