The explosive growth of the Asian middle class has driven extraordinary fishing pressure on sharks — which are slow to mature and reproduce. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
It wants the total allowable catch reduced to a level providing an 80 % probability of stocks recovering and demands other steps to reduce fishing pressure. (sciencemag.org)
Marine life is superb thanks to the lack of fishing pressure with angelfish, snapper, parrotfish, seahorses, and frogfish, kingfish, turtles and all in exceptional numbers. (planetdiveholidays.com)