16.01.2014 - Lofoten1 and Industrial Fishing etc. by dali48
29.04.2010 - Interpretation of dali48
As elsewhere, over-fishing threats here, too. - Responsible for this are industrial fishing, poaching and the many fish farms that pollute the waters...
In addition, 500,000 salmons per year (see variety of species, etc.? - d.48) spread diseases and possibly alter the genome of wild stocks... (ARTE, Lofoten, 11.12.2009)
Interpretation of dali48
The fishing industry includes any industry or activity concerned with taking, culturing, processing, preserving, storing, transporting, marketing or selling fish or fish products...
It is defined by the FAO as including recreational, subsistence and commercial fishing, and the harvesting, processing, and marketing sectors...
Directly or indirectly, the livelihood of over 500 million people in developing countries depends on fisheries and aquaculture...
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the world harvest in 2005 consisted of 93.3 million tons captured by commercial fishing in wild fisheries, plus 48.1 million tons produced by fish farms...
The number of individual fish caught in the wild has been estimated at 0.97-2.7 trillion per year (not counting fish farms or marine invertebrates)...
The top producing countries were, in order, the People's Republic of China, Peru, Japan, the United States, Chile, Indonesia, Russia, India, Thailand, Norway and Iceland...
Those countries accounted for more than half of the world's production; China alone accounted for a third of the world's production...
Modern Spanish tuna purse seiner in the Seychelles Islands (why isn't it forbidden to fish far away from the mother country except by UN-ships, and why is not fairly shared etc.? - d.48)... (Wikipedia)
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