Industrial fishing, instrumental in feeding the world's population while providing a livelihood to many people, also presents a variety of hazards to the health of the ocean, including the accumulation of derelict fishing gear. Although direct evidence of harm from derelict gear is abundant, efforts to quantify and assess the threats posed by it are confounded in part by the tremendous diversity of fishing gear and techniques. In this paper, we advance a novel analytic framework for describing the use of fishing gear that can be applied to evaluate the environmental impacts that arise from fishing activity. We model fishing as a unit process comprising three successive characterizations, each of which can be observed and validated independently: the intensity of fishing effort, the material intensity of gear, and the intensity of the environmental effect. We present the method as an open-source computation system with a library of gear models that can be reviewed and extended by the research community. We apply the program to estimate the generation of derelict gear for several different gear types and discuss how it can be expanded to advance the understanding of the impacts of industrial fishing at the global scale. This article met the requirements for a Gold–Gold JIE data openness badge described at http://jie.click/badges.

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渔具强度模型

工业化捕鱼有助于养活世界人口，同时为许多人提供生计，但也对海洋健康造成各种危害，包括废弃渔具的堆积。尽管废弃渔具造成危害的直接证据很多，但量化和评估其造成的威胁的努力在一定程度上因渔具和技术的巨大多样性而变得混乱。在本文中，我们提出了一个新的分析框架来描述渔具的使用，该框架可用于评估捕鱼活动对环境的影响。我们将捕鱼建模为一个单元过程，包括三个连续的特征，每个特征都可以独立观察和验证：捕捞强度、渔具的材料强度、和环境影响的强度。我们将该方法作为一个开源计算系统提出，该系统带有一个齿轮模型库，可以由研究团体审查和扩展。我们应用该程序来估计几种不同渔具类型的废弃渔具的产生，并讨论如何扩展它以促进对全球范围内工业化捕鱼影响的理解。这篇文章符合 Gold-Gold 的要求JIE数据开放徽章在 http://jie.click/badges 中描述。