New Maps Show the Massive Imprint of Fishing on the World's Oceans
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Washington Post] By Chris Mooney and Brady Dennis - February 23, 2018
Humans are now fishing at least 55 percent of the world's oceans — an area four times larger than the area occupied by humanity's onshore agriculture.
That startling statistic is among the findings of a unique, high-tech collaboration that is providing a massive amount of new data about global fishing operations. The results, published Thursday in the journal Science, offer a powerful glimpse of the problem of overfishing on the ...
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