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Overfishing significantly depletes ocean wildlife populations. Here's why it's a problem, and solutions to reduce fishing's environmental impact and maintain vital sources of food and livelihoods.
Bycatch—the incidental capture of non-target species during fishing—is a major problem. Preventing bycatch with modern solutions protects marine environments.
The global COVID-19 pandemic hit fishing communities in waves. First demand dried up as markets closed. Then fishers stopped fishing because it wasn’t safe or profitable. As a result, supporting businesses lost customers with fewer and fewer fishers needing—or having the money to buy—supplies.
In December 2016, the US government officially established the Seafood Import Monitoring Program to address illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing products entering the market. The new rule, in effect as of Jan. 1, 2018, sets up reporting and record-keeping requirements for certain seafood products to prevent IUU-caught and/or ...
Governments and regional fisheries bodies must act now to stop overfishing and prevent a global extinction crisis. More than one-third of all sharks, rays, and chimaeras are now at risk of extinction because of overfishing, according to a new study re-assessing their IUCN Red List of Threatened Species extinction risk status.
Due to the migration of sand dunes, the effects of climate change, and related factors such as declining rainfall, the mangrove forests of Miani Hor shrank by 20%–30% in the past two decades, jeopardizing a buffer for the coastline and a nursery for economically important wild fish.
But high rates of industrial fishing mean risking overfishing, bycatch, and related ecosystem damage. Dr. Vineetha Aravind, a resident of Kerala (or “Keralite”), is committed to balancing the fishing industry with the conservation of the marine biodiversity on which her community depends.
Recently the Netflix documentary series Our Planet explored the toll overfishing takes on wildlife, which goes well beyond depleting the fish that feed 3 billion people. Other vulnerable species are also caught up in nets and hooked by lines, including sharks, turtles, and whales.
Overfishing Projects. WWF has been leading projects to improve fisheries' long-term sustainability since 2010 and has successfully introduced training workshops around the world over the last five years.
What does overfishing mean? About one third of the world’s assessed fisheries are overfished, meaning the number of fish we catch is greater than the number of fish born or hatched. When fish can’t reproduce fast enough to make up for the losses, and populations decline.