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| Fisheries - Ph. Wikim. Commons |
Earth's ocean fishes and myriad
other organisms we use as "seafood" are experiencing varying levels
of decline. These declines ripple though the earth's aquatic ecosystems and
economies at large scales and smaller ones, affecting global trade, future fish
populations and subsistence lifeways at either end of the economic and
ecological spectrum.
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| Thai fish market - Ph. Wikim. Commmons |
Learn more about how these multiple aspects affect humans and fish that we use in a series of resources linked below. Many people who consume fish, squid, shrimp and other seafood are not aware that some of these species are caught, processed, and transported by people trapped by the net of 21st-century slavery (scroll down).
Declining Fisheries
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| Fishing trawler - Ph. Wikimedia Commons |
http://thankyouocean.org/threats/declining-fisheries/
http://wwf.panda.org/knowledge_hub/endangered_species/cetaceans/threats/fishstocks/
http://www.fao.org/newsroom/common/ecg/1000505/en/stocks.pdf
http://www.seaaroundus.org/sea-around-us-new-atlas-reveals-why-the-ocean-is-giving-us-1-2-million-mt-less-of-fish-every-year/
Rebuilding global fisheries under uncertainty
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/32/15985 |
| Orange roughy catch - Ph via Wikim. Commons - ScienceMag - Mark Lewus CSIRO |
Evolution of global marine fishing fleets and the response of fished resources
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/25/12238.shortGlobal Fisheries Catch Declining, Despite Statistics
"Countries’ improvements to their fisheries statistics have been contributing to the false impression that humanity is getting more and more fish from the ocean when, in reality, global marine catches have been declining on average by around 1.2 million tons per year since 1996."
https://maritime-executive.com/article/global-fisheries-catch-declining-despite-statistics
Are your fish being caught and processed by people victimized by modern slavery?
https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/2018/findings/importing-risk/fishing/
http://keystonedialogues.earth/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Brief1-Slavery-in-global-marine-fisheries.pdf
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/02/01/582214032/was-your-seafood-caught-with-slave-labor-new-database-helps-retailers-combat-abu
