Aquatic Resource Trade in Species (ARTIS)

Food systems have become increasingly globalized, with over a quarter of all food now traded internationally. Seafood is among the most highly traded foods and it is becoming increasingly globalized, with trade doubling in recent decades. At the same time, seafood is now widely recognized as a critical source of nutrition. Thus, social and environmental threats to local seafood production, including environmental extremes, price impacts of market integration, networked risks, and increased availability of processed foods, must be evaluated in the context of global trade. These issues are paralleled by similar questions for other natural resources and are central to global food systems research. However, our collective understanding of the environmental and human outcomes of food system globalization is limited by a fundamental gap between production and trade data. We bridge this gap in the Aquatic Resource Trade in Species (ARTIS) database by providing the first global estimates of seafood species and nutrient trade flows from 1996–2020. Full methods details available in the ARTIS manual: https://seafood-globalization-lab.github.io/artis-manual/

食品系统日益全球化，目前全球范围内有超过四分之一的食品参与国际贸易。海鲜是贸易规模最高的食品品类之一，其全球化程度也在不断提升，近数十年间贸易量翻了一番。与此同时，海鲜现已被广泛认可为至关重要的营养来源。因此，针对本地海鲜生产所面临的社会与环境威胁——包括极端环境事件、市场一体化带来的价格冲击、网络化风险，以及加工食品供应日益充裕等问题——必须结合全球贸易语境进行评估。这类问题与其他自然资源领域面临的同类议题相仿，也是全球食品系统研究的核心关切。然而，由于生产数据与贸易数据之间存在根本性的割裂，学界对食品系统全球化所带来的环境与人类影响的整体认知仍存在局限。本研究依托按物种划分的水生资源贸易（Aquatic Resource Trade in Species, ARTIS）数据库填补了这一空白，首次提供了1996年至2020年间全球海鲜物种与营养物质贸易流量的估算数据。完整的方法细节可参阅ARTIS手册：https://seafood-globalization-lab.github.io/artis-manual/