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What can be done if we want to avoid overfishing?

  • THE TEACHER
  • 28. März 2019
  • 1 Min. Lesezeit

If we know now that about 80% of the fish are overfished we can't just sit there and do nothing. We are called to action. Anybody? Ideas? Beside that, we should clearify the data: 80%, 90% or 30% and which regions, maybe which fish.



400 tons of jack mackerel caught by a Chilean ship

 
 
 

3 Comments


simonet786
Apr 01, 2019

On this picture you can see the bycatch. That makes me sad to see how much bycatch kills every year occur.


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THE TEACHER
Mar 28, 2019

This is a shocking chart of the effects of overfishing on a particular species.

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THE TEACHER
Mar 28, 2019

Just checked facts and figures:


World-wide, overfishing is one of the biggest threats to the health of seas and their inhabitants. Overfishing also affects many people directly – above all in developing countries. Daily, tonnes of fish are hauled out of the sea. Unfortunately this is much more than can be naturally replenished – a real plundering of the world’s oceans. An overview of the sad facts:

Today, each person eats on average 19.2kg of fish a year – around twice as much as 50 years ago [1]In 2013 around 93 million tonnes of fish were caught world-wide [2]About 38.5 million tonnes of bycatch results from current preferred fishing practice each year [3]Over just 40 years there has been a…


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