The results of the other indicators validate the concerns that motivated the development of
the FPIs. Although the Economic and Community indicators are not uncorrelated with the
Ecology indicator (in fact, a Wilcoxon/Mann-Whitney rank sum test does not reject the hypothesis
of identical rankings of the fisheries by indicator), we observe dramatic and frequent
exceptions suggesting that ecology represents an unsatisfactory proxy for the other pillars of
the TBL: each bottom line indicator must be monitored separately.