Oceans running out of fish as undeclared catches add a third to official figures

The Ecologist
Jan 18, 2016, 8:19 am99 pts
The global catch of fish and seafood is falling at three times the rate reported by the United Nations and urgently needs to be slowed to avoid a crash, reports Christopher Pala. The finding comes in a new study for Nature which quantifies the huge illegal industrial fish pillaging taking place around the…

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