Fishing in the Arctic and Antarctic: Exploiting Living Resources

19.Nov.2010 | 2 MB - pdf

This fact sheet looks at how global consumption of living marine resources has more than doubled over the last 50 years, thanks to modern fishing techniques. These techniques have been so successful that overfishing now poses a serious threat to world fish stocks. Moreover, climate change further diminishes the chances of survival of those species.

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