Fishing

ISSUES

Soon There Will be No Fish in the Ocean

According to the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), 93.8 million tonnes of fish were caught in 2005. Since the mid 1980s, the figures have been oscillating around 90 million tonnes: 95 in 2004, 90.5 in 2003, and 93.3 in 2002. Driven by demand, 75% of the fishing industry exploits resources to their limits, or beyond the capacity of marine ecosystems to regenerate. Maintaining such high levels of exploitation has paid a price of diversification for other species, like shrimp and cephalopods (squid, cuttlefish and octopus etc.).
Of the 3.5 million fishing boats in the world, 1% provides 50% of the world’s catch. Nearly 400 million people live off the fishing industry (including aquaculture) directly or indirectly (catching, processing, preparing, and selling), and of the 38 million who were employed in the processing industry in 2002, 87% were in Asia. 97% of fishermen are from developing nations. If fis...

NEWS

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DEBATES

The abuse of human rights aboard illegal fishing vessels

Environmental Justice Foundation

Life as a crew member aboard any fishing vessel is a difficult and often hazardous occupation, and widely considered to be one of...

If Fish Could Scream

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CITES Summit, Doha: What Went Wrong?

The 175 nation UN Convention on International Trade and...

FOCUS

Ocean acidification

The increase in the terrestrial atmosphere’s carbon dioxide levels causes a chemical change in oceans. This consequence is often neglected. Not only are oceans warming up, they are also absorbing gases from the...

VIDEOS

31/01/2012	A major investigation by the Ecologist reveals a host of unreported...	29/03/2011	The film tells the story of 13 year old Suwimon Daengniam and 59 year Wali...
08/02/2011	As part of the Spain-UNEP Partnership for Protected Areas, this project...	13/09/2010	Poachers hunting for black caviar are pushing the sturgeon towards...

GREEN TIPS

The red tuna under threat!

As part of its European plan to safeguard the Mediterranean red tuna, the retailer Auchan and its shops Atac...

INDICATORS

Undernourishment
Threatened ecosystems
Ecological footprint

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