Fish stocks are depleting and degrading because of over-exploitation, but fishers, entrepreneurs and policy-makers seem indifferent to the alarm bells on resource exhaustion. Bay of Bengal News looks at the crisis and at reforms needed in fisheries and aquaculture to resolve it – as analysed at several expert fora.
The world will run out of seafood by 2048 if marine fish stocks continue to decline at current rates, a group of14 researchers have warned in the journal Science..read more