The world’s oceans may be completely depleted of fish in 40 years if
action is not taken to replenish stocks, the United Nations
is warning in a new report.
In a preview of its upcoming report entitled the Green Economy, the United Nations Environment Programme states that “mismanagement, lack of enforcement and subsidies totaling over $27 billion annually have left close to 30 percent of fish stocks "collapsed.”
“If the various estimates we have received ... come true, then we are in the situation where 40 years down the line we, effectively, are out of fish,” Pavan Sukhdev, head of UNEP’s Green Economy plan, told Agence France Presse on Monday.
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Author: Nick Klopsis
