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.
On this picture you can see the bycatch. That makes me sad to see how much bycatch kills every year occur.
This is a shocking chart of the effects of overfishing on a particular species.
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…