Sentences with phrase «on wild fish stocks»

For example, to detect the impact of climate change on wild fish stocks, it is necessary to understand the effects of fishing, habitat alteration, and possibly pollution, as well as the internal stock dynamics.

The oceans face ecological calamity precisely because we still depend on wild fish stocks, though now harvested with industrial killing machines.

«Salmon farming is a huge business in the UK, Norway and beyond, and while it does reduce the pressure on wild fish stocks, it can also create its own environmental pressures through genetic disruption.

Automated offshore aquaculture systems to increase fish production and reduce pressure on wild fish stocks.

Not exact matches

Wild fish caught in areas where stocks are plentiful are sustainably sourced, as are farmed fish that are reared on farms proven to cause no harm to surrounding seas and shores.

Increasing aquaculture production can relieve wild fish stocks; however this positive effect will probably be overwhelmed by a greater demand and technological progress in the fishing industry — both increasing the fishing pressure on wild stocks.

A 90 % decline in Caspian beluga stocks over the preceding 20 years prompted the fish's addition to the United Nation's Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in 1998.

China's booming aquaculture industry is increasingly dependent on fishmeal made from wild - caught fish, a practice that depletes wild fish stocks.

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.

Marine farming offers a partial solution but comes with its own barrel of worms: Farmed fish tend to be more prone to diseases which spread to wild stocks; virtually all farmed fish are carnivores and therefore need to be fed on other fish; and farming of some animals, such as shrimp, can lead to massive changes in nitrogen levels, damaging the surrounding ecology.

Experts agree that as wild fish stocks decline and the world's population grows we will increasingly rely on aquaculture to feed the hungry planet.