Sustainable fisheries

• Declining fish stock means that:

  • food chains are affected
  • food security is threatened
  • financial struggle
  • populations at risk
• Sustainable fishing of the oceans means that fish are not caught at a faster rate than they can reproduce
• How is sustainable fishing achieved?

  • fishing quotas (restricting number and size of fish that can be caught)
  • larger net size means younger fish can escape so they can mature