Huge Gap Between World Demand For Fish and What Can Be Sustainably Harvested
Monday, October 13, 2008 - 11:14
in Biology & Nature
The President of SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture crouches over his laptop, opens one of his presentations and finds an illustration. It shows one red curve and one blue one. He then indicates the point where they meet each other, then frowns and says the message he cannot repeat often enough: There is a huge gap between world demand for fish and what we can harvest from the world’s natural stocks. The figures are clear: If we don’t do something about the over fishing, the stocks of wild fish will be dealt a death blow. At the same time, the world’s population continues to grow – and with it the global demand for food.