The world predicted a shortage of popular fish

Fishing areas in the Eastern Pacific will overlap with mining plans. To date, contracts have been concluded for the exploration of deep water deposits located on an area of 1.1 million square kilometers in the Clarion-Clipperton zone between Hawaii and Mexico. Against the background of global climate change, populations of bigeye, yellowfin and skipjack tuna are expected to increase by 10-11, 23 and 30-31 percent, respectively. However, bottom mining can negatively affect growth rates. Douglas McCauley, a professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, said fisheries in the area could be threatened by the dumping of waste from various industries on land and directly into the ocean. This could harm not only tuna production, but also the entire local ecosystem and food security. Global Tuna Alliance chief executive Daniel Saddabi warned that noise and light pollution from deep seabed mining could disrupt behaviour, cause stress and lead to changes in tuna migration ...