WWF: Our oceans are being plundered

The global fishing fleet is currently 2.5x larger than what the oceans can sustainably support - meaning that humans are taking far more fish out of the ocean than can be replaced by those remaining. As a result:

52% of the world's fisheries are fully exploited, and 24% are overexploited, depleted, or recovering from depletion

Seven of the top ten marine fisheries, accounting for about 30% of all capture fisheries production, are fully exploited or overexploited

As many as 90% of all the ocean's large fish have been fished out

Several important commercial fish populations have declined to the point where their survival is threatened.

more information:
-Governments Have Failed to Stop Overfishing, Study Shows

Source: full report: Our oceans are being plundered

Link: Deep-sea fish stocks 'plundered'
Link: Governments failed to stop overfishing: study
Link: High-sea fish stocks 'plundered'
Link: Inadequate protection
Link: USA: Center for Biological Diversity Takes First Step In Lawsuit to Protect Two Native Southwest Fish


Other EVANA-articles about this topic:
UE: Menos pressão para o Conselho "Pescas" de Dezembro de 2006: (pt)

UE: Meno pressione sul Consiglio "Pesca" del dicembre 2006: (it)

EU: Minder druk op de Visserijraad van 2006: (nl)

UE: Menos presión para el Consejo de Pesca de diciembre de 2006: (es)

UE: Moins de pression sur le Conseil de la pêche de décembre 2006: (fr)

EU: Less pressure on 2006 December Fisheries Council: (en)

FAO unveils new partnership for improved monitoring of world fisheries (en)

Peixes de águas profundas estão a ser levados à extinção (pt)

Internationale Abkommen gegen Überfischung sollen versagen (de)

Major Scientific Review: Eating Fish May Be Unhealthy (en)

Sushi may be bad for health: California group (en)

'Feeding fish, whale and seal to children is a form of child abuse' (en)