The problems of Earth: Overfishing
Overfishing is the taking of wildlife from the sea faster than stocks can replenish. Commercial fishing (Wikipedia 2020). The number of overfished stocks has tripled in half a century. Highly disruptive to the food chain, what had been isolated and regional depletions became a global and catastrophic impact by the late 20th century due to multinational fishery companies. Today, one-third of the world’s assessed fisheries are pushed beyond their biological limits, meaning that they have already collapsed. The 90% of the fishing stocks are overexploited or exploited to their top capacity . State of World fisheries (Environmental progress, 2018). A study published in 2006 in the journal Science predicted that by 2050 fish populations will crash. Faced with the collapse of large-fish populations, commercial fleets are going deeper in the ocean and farther down the food chain for viable catches. Today, 90% of all large ocean hunters...