A fisheries lobby group says more than 80 per cent of the world’s fisheries are at risk from overfishing.Oceana says the World Trade Organisation must act urgently to scrap unsustainable subsidies.
A senior campaign director at Oceana, Courtney Sakai, says the world’s fishing fleets can no longer expect to find new sources of fish.The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation says only 17 per cent of the world’s known fish stocks are under-exploited or moderately exploited.It says stocks particularly overfished are in significant parts of the Atlantic Ocean, the western Indian Ocean and the northwest Pacific Ocean.