“Most of our customers really care about the provenance of their food as well as its taste. We are helping to change this by putting our talented chefs to work, demonstrating that Cod, Halibut and Seabass are not the only choices, and that there are literally plenty more delicious fish in the sea.” The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Lusso Managing Director Paul Hurren who came up with the “Ugly Fish Friday” concept having been inspired by “Hugh’s Fish Fight” “70% of assessed fish stocks in large parts of the EU are overfished, and yet many delicious, sustainable fish species are currently overlooked and under-used by chefs and thus under-ordered by diners. RLS data management is supported by Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (RSS). This project received additional funding from the LabEx CeMEB and the program PEPS CNRS (NM). Stuart Smith, Anne-Sophie Tribot and Nicolas Mouquet, 7 June 2022, PLoS Biology.įunding: This research was partially funded through the 2017–2018 Belmont Forum and BiodivERsA REEF-FUTURES project under the BiodivScen ERA-Net COFUND program with the French National Research Agency (DM and NM). Reference: “The aesthetic value of reef fishes is globally mismatched to their conservation priorities” by Juliette Langlois, François Guilhaumon, Florian Baletaud, Nicolas Casajus, Cédric De Almeida Braga, Valentine Fleuré, Michel Kulbicki, Nicolas Loiseau, David Mouillot, Julien P. Our study highlights likely important mismatches between potential public support for conservation and the species most in need of this support.” We found that less beautiful fishes are the most ecologically and evolutionary distinct species and those recognized as threatened. Mouquet adds, “Our study provides, for the first time, the aesthetic value of 2,417 reef fish species. Mandarinfish are popular choices for saltwater aquariums. The ecological and evolutionary distinctiveness of unattractive fishes makes them important for the functioning of the whole reef, and their loss could have a disproportionate impact on these high-biodiversity ecosystems. Our innate preferences for shape and color are probably a consequence of the way the human brain processes colors and patterns, the authors say, but mismatches between aesthetic value, ecological function, and extinction vulnerability may mean that the species most in need of public support are the least likely to receive it. Furthermore, species listed on the IUCN Red List as “Threatened” or whose conservation status has not yet been evaluated had lower aesthetic value on average than species categorized as “Least Concern.” Unattractive species were also of greater commercial interest, whereas aesthetic value was not correlated with a species’ importance for subsistence fisheries. However, the species that were ranked as more attractive tended to be less distinctive in terms of their ecological traits and evolutionary history. Stuart Smith ( CC-BY 4.0)Ĭombining the public’s ratings with the neural network’s predictions, they found that bright, colorful fish species with rounder bodies tended to be rated as the most beautiful. The mandarinfish (Synchiropus splendidus) is among the reef fish species with the highest aesthetic values.
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