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...

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FRANCE - PARIS - Le plancton végétal a décliné au cours du siècle dernier, probablement à cause du réchauffement climatique,...

IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF - GENEVE - Les pays riverains de la mer Caspienne vont pouvoir commercialiser cette année trois tonnes de caviar bélouga,...

JAPAN - TOKYO (AFP) - Un thon de 445 kilos, le plus gros pêché dans les eaux japonaises depuis un quart de siècle, s'est vendu...

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DEBATES

CITES Summit, Doha: What Went Wrong?

Susan Lieberman

From your perspective, in light of the many failures of the CITES summit in Doha, should CITES be reconsidered as the best...

The case of the mysterious seafood

The first victim was a Caucasian male in his late 30s. He...

Tuna can stay on the menu... for now

Tuna are widely but sparsely distributed throughout the...

INITIATIVE

An Oscar For The Cove - One Man’s Quest To Save Japan’s Dolphins

Dolphins of the world are silent no more due to one man’s efforts to bring awareness and ultimately end the tragic annual dolphin killing tradition in Japan. The 2009 documentary

VIDEOS

06/07/2010	Une équipe de la BBC a plongé au coeur du filet d'un thonier senneur dans...	23/04/2010	Thon rouge, la pêche continue au Japon est un reportage sur le thon rouge...
08/04/2010	Les navires de pêche étrangers n'osent plus se rendre au large de...	24/02/2010	In Japan, two Greenpeace activists are standing trial for exposing a...

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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