Zusammenfassung der Ressource
1.3 - The Blue Revolution
- Looking to the oceans
- Fishing
- Farming
- Risk of overfishing
- How can we sustainably farm oceans?
- Quotas
- UK increasingly reliant
on fish imports
- Grimsby has become a processing port
- More than 80% of fish
species in UK under
threat
- 1/15 caught today
than in the 1920s
- Gone up 50%
- Seafood market makes £5.5
million in the UK every year
- High demand results in paying
LEDC's to over fish
- Fish we catch in UK
haven't had a chance to
reproduce
- Result? Over fishing
and populations
decrease
- 3/4 of global fish
stocks are being
exploited
- Could run out
by end of
century
- Senegal
- More than 2000 workers in
fishing industry
- About 75,000 tonnes
of fish exported to
EU/ yr
- Fishing interrupted by EU fishermen
- Some allowed by EU others illegal!
- EU enterprises
cheating the Senegal
govt
- Fish more expensive
than meat in Senegal
- Advantages
- Fish costs have dropped in the UK
- Healthier source of protein
- Greater variety of fish
- Has potential of
being sustainable
- Faster source of food
- Seafood market
becomes
profitable
- Disadvantages
- High chance of over fishing
- Leads to endangered
species of fish
- MEDC's stocks run out
- LEDCs are exploited +
cheated
- Fishermen have lost jobs
- Price for fish
increased (In LEDCs)
- Countries rely
on imports
- By 2050 fish
industry could
collapse
- People who rely on
fish for income in
trouble