11 Overfishing Statistics and Facts You Should Know About
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- 01 Sep 2022
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To meet the ever-increasing fish demand, global seafood production has quadrupled over the past 50 years. As one of the biggest environmental problems of our lifetime, we cannot afford to let this issue go unnoticed. Here are 11 mind-blowing overfishing statistics and facts you should know about.
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11 Overfishing Statistics and Facts
Fish Production
1. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) fisheries capture statistics, between 970 to 2,700 billion fishes were caught from the wild each year between 2007 and 2016. Between 51 and 167 billion farmed fishes as well as 250 to 600 billion crustaceans were killed for food in 2017 alone.
2. The world produces around 200 million tonnes of fish and seafood every year. This comes from a combination of wild fish catch and fish farming. In fact, the rapid growth of aquaculture over the last few decades means we now produce more seafood from fish farms than we do from fisheries. Read More...
