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Who is eating all the fish? [View all]
The number of overfished stocks has tripled over the past 50 years, as fishing fleets push further afield to feed their growing populations.
by Eryk Bagshaw and the Visual Stories Team
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Fish is the primary source of protein for billions of people worldwide. Nutritionally, it is far more efficient than meat, delivering calcium for the bones and Omega-3 for the brain.
But global stocks of fish are being plundered and driven to exhaustion.
More than 90 per cent of the world’s major marine fish stocks are classified by the United Nations as fully exploited, over-exploited, or significantly depleted.
The number of over-fished stocks has tripled over the past 50 years pushing fishing captains and their fleets further out to sea in search of profits from the $600 billion-a-year industry.
(More at link)
https://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2023/fishing-rights/
by Eryk Bagshaw and the Visual Stories Team
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Fish is the primary source of protein for billions of people worldwide. Nutritionally, it is far more efficient than meat, delivering calcium for the bones and Omega-3 for the brain.
But global stocks of fish are being plundered and driven to exhaustion.
More than 90 per cent of the world’s major marine fish stocks are classified by the United Nations as fully exploited, over-exploited, or significantly depleted.
The number of over-fished stocks has tripled over the past 50 years pushing fishing captains and their fleets further out to sea in search of profits from the $600 billion-a-year industry.
(More at link)
https://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2023/fishing-rights/
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