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At the same time, our global
fisheries
are two-and-a-half times larger than what our oceans can sustainably support, meaning that humans take far more fish from the ocean than the oceans can naturally replace.
And there are a lot of great, sustainable fishing initiatives across the planet working towards better practices and better-managed
fisheries.
It's unlikely, even with the best-managed fisheries, that we are going to be able to take much more from the ocean than we do today.
Very few people realize the traceability in
fisheries
never goes beyond the hunter that caught the wild animal.
Sixty-five percent of these fisheries, globally, are badly managed.
But it underlines the impact of our fisheries, and it underlines how interconnected everything is.
Fisheries, aquaculture, deforestation, climate change, food security and so on.
Together, we looked at a variety of biological systems, ranging from natural tropical rainforests through to managed forests and
fisheries.
Seventeen goals ranging from ending poverty to inclusive cities to sustainable fisheries; all a comprehensive plan for the future of our world.
And they support rich biodiversity, including some very important
fisheries.
We teamed up underwater photographer Brian Skerry and photojournalist Randy Olson to document the depletion of the world's
fisheries.
But recent studies show that 33% of wild
fisheries
are overfished, while another 60% are fished at their maximum capacity.
TNC's idea is to restructure this debt, to generate the funds and political will to protect reefs, mangroves and
fisheries.
The Seychelles is protecting its coral reefs, it's replenishing its fisheries, it's improving its resilience to climate change.
And it's far too easy for governments to stand by while
fisheries
and farmland are depleted instead of conserved to feed future generations.
Across North America, there are more than 30
fisheries
that are doing something vaguely similar to this.
They're creating long-term stakes in the
fisheries
known as catch shares which get fishermen to be motivated not just in taking whatever they can from the ocean today but in its long-term survival.
Their staggering productivity ranks
fisheries
with farming as a mainstay of food production for humanity.
Yet the crisis of overfishing is a great paradox: unnecessary, avoidable and entirely reversible, because
fisheries
are one of the most productive resources on the planet.
This idea became the founding principle for my work and grew into an organization that brought a new approach to ocean conservation by working to rebuild
fisheries
with coastal communities.
There is no investment opportunity on earth that can reliably deliver what
fisheries
can.
Today in Madagascar, hundreds of sites are managed by communities applying this human rights-based approach to conservation to all kinds of fisheries, from mud crabs to mackerel.
We need to step up to this global opportunity to rebuild fisheries: with field workers to stand with communities and connect them, to support them to act and learn from one another; with governments and lawyers standing with communities to secure their rights to manage their fisheries; prioritizing local food and job security above all competing interests in the ocean economy; ending subsidies for grotesquely overcapitalized industrial fleets and keeping those industrial and foreign vessels out of coastal waters.
Now, you may not care about shellfish, but these changes impact economically important fisheries, like crab and salmon, and they can impact the health of marine mammals like whales.
I know that because I have friends who work on
fisheries'
research vessels who have sent to me reports from boats out in the ocean.
And you read further into the story, and it's saying, the horrifying thing that's going on is that the
fisheries
are so overfishing the wild fishes, that it is taking down the fish populations in the oceans by 38 percent.
The consequence of that is that all those nutrients that fuel the great anchoveta fisheries, of the sardines of California or in Peru or whatever, those slow down and those
fisheries
collapse.
People are losing their jobs because the
fisheries
are collapsing.
ES: And then we have the under-performance of
fisheries
that is 50 billion dollars.
I was led to this question while studying coral reefs, which support millions of people through
fisheries
and tourism here in Africa and around the world.
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