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

EU ministers reach deal on fisheries reform

Failure of EU fisheries talks would be 'disaster': Ireland

EU begins difficult talks on fishery reforms

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DEBATES

Rio+20 : overfishing puts oceans in danger

Daniel Pauly

French specialist of oceans, Daniel Pauly says that oceans are in danger due to overfishing....

The abuse of human rights aboard illegal fishing vessels

Life as a crew member aboard any fishing vessel is a...

If Fish Could Scream

When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks,...

FOCUS

Nobel Price of ecology

Designed to recognize grassroots environmental heroes, the Goldman Environmental Prize, founded by Richard and Rhoda Goldman in 1989 In San Francisco, is awarded annually to individuals from the six inhabited continental regions for sustained and significant efforts to...

VIDEOS

19/03/2013	WWF, in collaboration with the Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic...	13/02/2013	When high-impact fishing methods like scallop dredging and bottom-trawling...
07/11/2012	Sierra Leone, a small coastal state in West Africa, has seen a dramatic...	06/11/2012	The iconic Irrawaddy dolphin was once plentiful in Cambodia, Laos, and...

GREEN TIPS

Save the grouper

In the Mediterranean, the grouper and its environment are strictly protected in the Port-Cros national park,...

INDICATORS

Undernourishment
Threatened ecosystems
Ecological footprint

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