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| Calendar: | elma.pollard@gmail.com |
| Title: | World Fisheries Day |
| When: | 21.11.2012 |
| Location: | Global |
| Description: | World Fisheries Day aims to draw attention to the necessity of changing the way the world manages global fisheries to ensure sustainable stocks and healthy oceans ecosystems. On World Fisheries Day there is a call for us to ensure that fisheries are here tomorrow. Around 80 million tons of fish and seafood are caught globally each year. Ocean catches represent close to three quarters of this amount. Fisheries make major contributions to fishing nations‘ economies, employing and feeding millions of people worldwide. But overfishing and mechanisation has lead to a crisis. Fish stocks are being depleted through 'factory' vessels, bottom trawling, and other unsustainable fishing methods. A recent United Nations study reported that more than two-thirds of the world's fisheries have been overfished or are fully harvested, and more than one third are in a state of decline because of factors such as the loss of essential fish habitats, pollution, and global warming.If we want to maintain the many seafood choices we have and keep our oceans healthy, we need to make smarter seafood choices right now. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) through the Southern African Sustainable Seafood Initiative (SASSI) is helping us to make better seafood choices. So be sure to order fish and seafood off the Green List. Download your free SASSI pocket guide here: www.greenworks.co.za/SASSI_Pocket_Guide.pdf |
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