Fisheries on the Brink
Posted by: NomadsLand Associate Editor
Posted on: December 29, 2009
Posted in: Conservation, Ecotourism, Endangered Species, Environment, Global Crisis, Video, Water, Wildlife
Destructive fishing practices like bottom trawling waste more than 16 billion pounds of fish and kill countless marine mammals every year, while obliterating ocean habitat like coral reefs and seamounts that can take decades or centuries to recover. Oceana works to ensure that fish are taken out of the ocean only at sustainable rates based on science, and to protect habitats by drastically reducing bycatch and its effects on the marine ecosystem.
Dr. Daniel Pauly, Director of the Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia, provides insight into the damage that has been done to our oceans and answers the question “is it too late to save them?”



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