The development of fishery should conform to the global trend

Published Aug 17, 2021

Tridge summary

The article highlights the critical role of fisheries in providing food and supporting the economy, but emphasizes the threats to marine life due to overfishing, illegal fishing, and environmental challenges like ocean heatwaves and acidification. It underscores the need for improved fisheries management and the elimination of harmful subsidies. The article also stresses the importance of aquaculture, which is set to exceed wild fish catches by 2030, and proposes open ocean aquaculture as a solution for the limited land and freshwater availability. The article calls for comprehensive planning, regulation, and innovation in aquaculture to ensure sustainability and reduce the carbon footprint. It also discusses China's successful experiment with deep-sea aquaculture and Taiwan's focus on land-based farming, advocating for the inclusion of aquaculture in national food policies to ensure food security and promote the development of the blue economy.

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Original content

Fisheries (including aquaculture and fishing) continue to make significant contributions to the global food, economy, society and ecological environment (the ocean absorbs about 30% of the carbon dioxide produced by human activities). However, although fish resources are renewable, they are not unlimited. Nowadays, due to human factors About one-third of the world’s fishing grounds are overfished, coupled with ocean heat waves caused by global warming, sea level rise, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity, coral death and loss of ice, will all pose a serious threat to the survival of marine fish. It also brings new problems to fishery management. About 20% of the world’s fish catch is from illegal fishing. Current fisheries management is not enough to reverse the decline in fish stocks in the global oceans due to overfishing. For this reason, the World Trade Organization (WTO) is actively seeking to eliminate harmful fisheries subsidies, the United Nations FAO has also ...

Source: Peoplenews