Apr 192013
 

Detective work uncovers under-reported overfishing

China reports that they scoop 368,000 metric tons of fish out of international waters annually. But it seems that they actually fish up something more like 4,600,000 metric tons, 2,900,000 of which comes from West African waters. This is rapidly depleting the fish stocks from the worlds oceans as a whole, but particularly from African waters, wiping out the ability of local African fishermen to make a living.

Woo.

 Posted by at 11:57 pm