Global fish production is approaching its sustainable limit, with around 90% of the world’s stocks now fully or overfished and a 17% increase in production forecast by 2025, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). “We now have a fifth more of global fish stocks at worrying levels than we did in 2000,” he said. “My personal view is that it is quite momentous to have reached this level of production,” Barange said. “The UK is a net importer of fish so the fish we eat might cost us more. Of the world’s top 30 fish consuming nations, 22 were in the UN’s “low income, food deficit” category.

Source: The Guardian July 07, 2016 17:26 UTC