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Lack of Protection

Only 1.6% of the worls oceans have been declared marine protected areas, and of these areas more then 90% of them are open to fhishng. This leaves virtually no safe places for fish to go, alevaes no space for fish stocks to resuply or recover. The map on the right is a map of the areas fish stocks, and most of the worlds oceans have been fished except for icy areas, which due to climate change are becomig more exposed.

Subsidies

Today, governments are still heavily subsidizing fishing fleets, externalizing the true cost of the destruction to marine ecosystems.

One of the biggest causes of overfishing is overconumption, people in countires taht are not sualyy eating fish are now able to afford imported fish, so the enitr epopulation is relying on the oceans now for food, whcihc the ocean cannot sustain.

Poor Managment

It is very hard to oversee the fishing industry,

amd this causes a lot of 'pirate fishing' or

unregulated fishing occuring because no one

is enforcing any regulations. The regulations

and qoutas that do exist are not implimented

and enforced, and do not take into account

sceintific data. This causes most fish to be

caught illegally or unsustainably.