80% of the world’s ocean fish species have been over-exploited and are in rapid decline, according to three new reports. Overfishing, climate change, acidification, agricultural runoff and, most interestingly, U.S. taxpayer subsidies are responsible for the steep drop in fish populations.
From The Daily Green:
The U.N. Food and Agriculture’s State of the World Fisheries and Aquaculture [...]
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The endangered vaquita porpoise has an unlikely new group of friends: commercial fishermen who were previously accidentally trapping and killing the animals while trying to catch shrimp, mackerel and sharks. The Mexican government is paying 800 fishermen in the northernmost area of the Gulf of Mexico to stop fishing with nets and, in some cases, [...]
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