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Successful fisheries management can be best achieved by implementing and enforcing science-based catch or effort limits, research shows…
Read Full Article, Science Daily (12-19-2016)
As global per-capita fish consumption hits all-time high, UN warns on overharvesting, UN (07-07-2016)
A new report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) shows that while growth in aquaculture has helped drive global per capita fish consumption above 20 kilograms a year for the first time, almost a third of commercial fish stocks are now overharvested at biologically unsustainable levels…
One of the World’s Biggest Fisheries Is on the Verge of Collapse; National Geographic (08-29-2016)
The World’s Tuna and Mackerel Populations Are in a “Catastrophic” Decline, Quartz (09-17-2015)
Food Chain Collapse Predicted in World’s Oceans; Discovery News (10-12-2015)
30 percent of global fish catch is unreported, study finds, Science Daily (01-20-2016)
Nearly Half of U.S. Seafood Supply is Wasted, Study Shows, Science Daily (09-25-2015)
As much as 47 percent of the edible US seafood supply is lost each year, mainly from consumer waste, new research suggests…
Chinese Foreign Fisheries Catch 12 Times More Than Reported, Study Shows, Science Daily (04-03-2013)
As global per-capita fish consumption hits all-time high, UN warns on overharvesting, UN (07-07-2016)
A new report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) shows that while growth in aquaculture has helped drive global per capita fish consumption above 20 kilograms a year for the first time, almost a third of commercial fish stocks are now overharvested at biologically unsustainable levels…
Farmed Fish Consumption At Record High, UN Report Reveals, Guardian UK (05-19-2014)
The Next Food Revolution: Fish Farming?; CSM (10-25-2015)
Half of all farmed fish have hearing loss due to deformed ears bones; Newsweek (04-28-2016)
Fish Farms Cause Rapid Sea-Level Rise, Nature (08-16-2013)
Groundwater extraction for fish farms can cause land to sink at rates of a quarter-metre a year, according to a study of China’s Yellow River delta. The subsidence is causing local sea levels to rise nearly 100 times faster than the global average…
