Why Plastic Isn’t the Only Threat to Our Seas
Hiya!! Hope you’re having a wonderful Friday! Below you can find my new video about industrial fishing as well as three quotes and three links I found useful during my research process. Enjoy!
Three Quotes:
“Our analysis suggests that the global ocean has lost more than 90% of large predatory fishes.”
— Ransom A. Myers & Boris Worm
“Competitive markets create incentives to expand production, regardless of resource decline. Thus, in reaction to decreased stocks due to overfishing, groundfishing fleets moved farther offshore.”
— Brett Clark & Rebecca Clausen
“It is almost as though we use our military to fight the animals in the ocean. We are gradually winning this war to exterminate them. And to see this destruction happen, for nothing really – for no reason – that is a bit frustrating. Strangely enough, these effects are all reversible, all the animals that have disappeared would reappear, all the animals that were small would grow, all the relationships that you can't see any more would re-establish themselves, and the system would re-emerge.”
— Daniel Pauly
Three Links:
The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2020 (FAO interactive)
Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (IPCC)
Fish and Overfishing (Our World in Data)
Hope you have a wonderful weekend,
Charlie