Sentences with phrase «global fish stocks»

The dire state of global fish stocks is pretty well known by now - with costs of poor management of fish stocks running to $ 50 billion a year.

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The Japanese assertion that rising whale populations endanger global fish stocks is also bitterly controversial.

There is a progression of global impacts from the loss of stratospheric ozone, to decling global fish stocks, to loss of topsoil and now global climate change.

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42 years is about the same number of years the global fish stocks have left before they collapse.

In terms of humans, global fish stocks are an example of a communal resource and if fishermen and their governments don't work together to agree on policies that are enforced, then global fish stocks will be exhausted and the industry will collapse resulting in the loss of a common good.»

Not exact matches

In its most recent report on the state of global fisheries, the United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization warned that 90 percent of the world's fish stocks are fully or overfished, and increasing production to meet the world's growing demand for animal protein can't be done in a sustainable manner.

Last May biologists at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, reported that global stocks of large predatory fish have declined by 90 percent since industrial fishing began in the mid-1950s.

Nevertheless, FAO is sounding an alarm on gradual declines in wild catch fishing production and depletion of stocks, while being careful to note that growth in the global aquaculture industry is largely making up the difference and seems poised to overtake capture fishing as the world's leading source of seafood.

«Increased transparency, along with effective regulation and enforcement, can lead to better outcomes for fish stocks and local livelihoods,» said David Kroodsma, Global Fishing Watch's director of research and development.

Marine scientists from Australia and the USA today called for global efforts to protect deeper coral reefs as insurance against the widespread destruction of shallow reefs and their fish stocks now taking place around the world.

In general, as fishing fleets have global reach some seafood that reaches our shores depletes stocks in areas that depend on traditional and more sustainable fisheries, and can cause human suffering.

Goal No. 3: Transition 13 of the 22 million boats fishing into alternate activity in order to save and replenish depleted global fish and seafood stocks and ensure sustainability of global fisheries.

Competition between highly subsidized industrial fishing fleets coupled with poor regulation and weak enforcement of existing rules has led to over-exploitation of most commercially valuable fish stocks, reducing the income from global marine fisheries by US$ 50 billion annually, compared to a more sustainable fishing scenario (World Bank and FAO 2009).

My opinion is that, putting global warming and climate change aside, we have much greater evidence of the difficult future caused by land degradation, shrinking drinkable water supplies, collapsing fish stocks, and the troubles that will be caused to the economy and society as supply of oil and gas supplies shrink and energy becomes too expensive.

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LONG - TERM AND SHORT - TERM TIME SERIES OF GLOBAL CLIMATIC INDICES AND FISH STOCK The most pronounced spectral maximum of the long - term fluctuations for all «long - term» time series (excluding anchovy) varies within the interval of 54 - 58 years.

If global - warming emissions continue to grow at today's rates, scientists expect rising temperatures to render about one - third of the Northwest's habitat for salmon and other coldwater fish unsuitable by the end of the century.2, 12 Climate change poses another obstacle to the already monumental challenge of restoring depleted salmon stocks.2

The Senate resolution recognized that global warming could shift fish stocks toward the central Arctic Ocean, and that dwindling sea ice would open the door to exploitation of the region.

«And instead of demanding to know exactly how high seas will rise or how many fish will be left in them or what the average global temperature will be in 20 years, they argue, we should seek to discern simply whether seas are rising, fish stocks are falling and average temperatures are increasing.

The recent report of the Global Humanitarian Forum led by Kofi Annan suggests that 325 million people are already seriously affected by drought, disease, floods, loss of livestock, low agricultural yields, and declining fish stocks.

If either changes, there would be significant impacts on the distribution of major fish stocks, though not on global production (Medium Confidence).

Because natural variability is so great relative to global change, and the time horizon on capital replacement (e.g., ships and plants) is so short, impacts on fisheries can be easily overstated, and there will likely be relatively small economic and food supply consequences so long as no major fish stocks collapse

Fish stocks, another major contributor to global nutrition, are currently being overexploited worldwide by intensive industrial fishing practices.

Our modern food system, which has enabled virtually unbridled population growth, is also culpable in decreased biodiversity, loss of topsoil, the depletion of global stocks of fish, the contamination of groundwater, and a host of other negative environmental effects, such as increased carbon emissions, the gross misuse of antibiotics, and the health implications of vast quantities of cheap, virtually nutrition-less calories.

It is not limited to rhino horn and ivory: lizards, snakes, tigers, birds, pangolins, fish stocks are also part of this global trade.