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Global Fishing Watch enables users with Internet access to monitor fishing activity globally, and to view "individual vessel tracks, exclusive economic zones, marine protected areas, and other features." [2] It is hoped that the initiative can help to reduce "global overfishing, illegal fishing and habitat destruction." [3]
With the absence of foreign fishing, many Canadian and U.S fishing trawlers took their place, and the number of cod kept diminishing past a point of recovery. [12] Many local fishers noticed the drastic decrease of cod and tried to inform local government officials. [citation needed] In a 1978 white paper, the Newfoundland government stated: [15]
In April 2005, Insight Sports, through its subsidiary Global Fishing Network Ltd., was granted approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a channel called Global Fishing Network, described as "a national English-language Category 2 specialty programming undertaking devoted to fishing and fishing enthusiasts."
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The fishing industry sector is a small contributor to greenhouse gas emissions overall but nevertheless there are options for reducing fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions. [7]: v For example, about 0.5 percent of total global CO 2 emissions in 2012 were caused by fishing vessels (including inland vessels): 172.3 million tonnes of CO 2. [7]
World capture fisheries and aquaculture production by species group [1]. The global commercial production for human use of fish and other aquatic organisms occurs in two ways: they are either captured wild by commercial fishing or they are cultivated and harvested using aquacultural and farming techniques.
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