In the race to find food for our rapidly rising populations, it may well make sense to look to the seas. Virtually everyone’s aware of just how much ocean is available compared with the land.
So if you take that thinking to its logical extent, there should be serious potential to develop far more food from the water than from the desert. The problem, inherent in many sustainability issues, is about shepherding resources properly, and about knowing when to allow the land and the seas to recover.
Sustainable fisheries might provide an answer to these questions. But what exactly do we mean by this, and is there any clear consensus to what a ‘sustainable’ fishery actually is?
One body looking at the problem is Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. It released research on exactly these themes earlier this year.
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