Global fisheries and seafood supply chains have remarkable structural similarities to
nature's food webs, with humans as apex predators, allowing us to use ecological concepts
to draw connections between fisheries management and the stability and resilience of the
global seafood system. However, misinformation currently plagues the global seafood
market and may be preventing food webs' natural stabilizing features from working properly
in the seafood system. We argue that misinformation blocks transparency throughout the …

* Correspondence to: Timothy J. Bartley, timothy. bartley@ gmail. com Abstract:
Misinformation currently plagues our global seafood market. Because this globally
interconnected, complex and dynamic market parallels food webs and places humans as
apex predators, we can apply our understanding of nature's structure to better understand
the consequences of misinformation in the global seafood system. Here, we argue that this
misinformation undermines the sustainability of our global seafood system because it …