Useful information
The percentage of the earths surface covered by ocean
What is 70%?
The amount of fish caught globally every year in tonnes
What is 200,000,000 tonnes?
The primary motive for overfishing
What is profit?
The natural underwater habitat that is destroyed due to overfishing
What are coral reefs?
Introducing a ban where would help reduce overfishing rates
What are international waters?
The definition of by-catching
What is the catching of unwanted fish?
The country that catches the most fish each year
What is China?
The method that is used to catch the most fish and therefore increase overfishing amounts
What is Seafloor trawling?
More than one third of all chimaeras, rays and what are under threat of extinction due to overfishing
What are sharks?
Overfishing could be reduced with stricter what
What are guidelines?
2 "essential predators" affected by overfishing
What are sharks and tuna?
The amount of marine species that have become overfished in Oceania
What is 104?
This global crisis negatively impacts the amount of areas fish are able to be caught
What is pollution?
An impact caused by the extinction of certain predators
What is an imbalance in the food chain?
The type of light that SafetyNet is using in their nets to help target certain species to reduce overfishing
What are LED lights?
A rapid increase in what has led to a lot more produce form fisheries
What is aquaculture?
The percentage of caught fish that is wasted each year
What is 35%?
99% of what is unprotected from overfishing
What are international waters?
The approximate number of people who rely on fish for their source of protein
What is 3 billion?
The places scientists are urging governments to introduce a ban on sea floor trawling
What are marine protected areas?
The amount of marine protected areas in the world
What is 15,000?
The percentage of ocean wildlife that represents the earths biodiversity
What is 80%?
The amount of USD criminals make per year from illegal, unregulated fishing
What is $36.4 billion?
The rough amount of USD lost annually because of overfishing
What is $50 billion?
The charity organization that are promoting the use of cameras on industrial fishing vessels
What is the WWF?