OverFishing
Of all the threats facing the oceans today, overfishing takes the greatest toll on sea life—and people - Environmental Defense Fund
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What’s Worse Than an Oil Spill?
I recently talked about this with two men who specialize in ocean affairs: Carl Safina, the author of “A Sea In Flames” and the president of the Blue Ocean Institute; and Ted Danson, (yes, that Ted Danson), who recently published Oceana (the book) and is a board member of Oceana, the conservation organization he helped found. As Safina said, “Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don’t spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don’t get diluted.”
That CO2, of course,…
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Countdown to Extinction
Oceans play a critical role in feeding our growing population: three billion people around the world depend on fish as a major protein source. But with 80 percent of fisheries around the world lacking formal scientific assessments, we’re still just beginning to understand how much damage overfishing has done. VICE sent correspondent Isobel Yeung to the Mozambique Channel and the Gulf of Mexico to get an idea of how much we've overfished our oceans and what we can now do to save them.
The Last Fish - Our Exhausted Seas - Documentary on Overfishing and Dwindling Fish Stocks
Around 90 million tons of fish are removed from the world’s oceans every year. But the seemingly inexhaustible food source is proving finite.
How Our Appetite for Seafood Is Killing Our Oceans
We've gotten used to hearing warnings about the catastrophic declines of fish in the world's oceans. Several years ago scientists began predicting that the world's seafood supply would collapse completely by the year 2050 if current rates of overfishing don't change. But for most of us, even this dire warning conjures up nothing more serious than a lack of choice at the supermarket or the sushi place.
Just how badly are we overfishing the oceans?
Are fish populations going to keep shrinking each year — or could they recover? Those are surprisingly contentious questions, and there seem to be a couple of schools of thought here.
Omega-3s: Is It an Environmental Disaster?
Are Omega-3 fatty acids one of nature's wonder supplements or are we just destroying the fish and the oceans and ultimately ourselves in the quest for health?
Overfishing: The most serious threat to our oceans
As a result of prolonged and widespread overfishing, nearly a third of the world’s assessed fisheries are now in deep trouble—and that’s likely an underestimate, since many fisheries remain unstudied.
What’s Worse Than an Oil Spill?
The reality is that a tremendous amount needs to change for our oceans and fish stocks to recover. Scary as it has been, the fishing fix seems at least imaginable, if we create more marine sanctuaries, crack down on overfishing and continue to pressure retailers to employ sustainable seafood policies.
Blue Ventures
We rebuild tropical fisheries with coastal communities. Blue Ventures develops transformative approaches for catalysing and sustaining locally led marine conservation. We work in places where the ocean is vital to local cultures and economies, and are committed to protecting marine biodiversity in ways that benefit coastal people.
SkyTruth
SkyTruth envisions a world where all people can see and understand the environmental consequences of human activity everywhere on the earth, and are motivated to take action to protect the environment.
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