Fisheries/Overfishing

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Dwindling Fish Catch Could Leave a Billion Hungry
Leahy, Stephen
Article
2009
Fish catches are expected to decline dramatically in the world's tropical regions because of climate change, but may increase in the north, said a new study published Thursday. This mega-shift in ocea...
The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and What We Eat
Clover, Charles
Book
2006
Decades and even centuries of habitat destruction, pollution, and overfishing have transformed and degraded the oceans.
EnvironmentSources.com
Website
2017
Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and importa...
Fishers and plunderers: The tragedy of the commodity
Ensor. Sarah
Article
2016
Overfishing, pollution and warming water have pushed the world’s oceans into crisis. If nothing is done the results will be catastrophic for marine systems and the billions of humans who rely on them....
The Humble Tuna
Romulous, Aetius
Article
2009
The humble tuna, "the chicken of the sea", is an unfortunate metaphor for all that is dysfunctional about our contemporary, western, capitalist world. The story of the Tuna is the story of our triumph...
Lament for an Ocean: The Collapse of the Atlantic Cod Fishery: A True Crime Story
Harris, Michael
Book
1998
Harris's account of why and how the northern cod was taken to the brink of extinction in little more than thirty years.
The Last Codfish: Life and Death of the Newfoundland Way of Life
Chantraine, Pol (Translated by Roth, Kathe)
Book
1993
The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail
Bolster, W. Jeffrey
Book
2012
Reveals the long history of warnings against overfishing and that the sea is not an 'infinite resource'.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018: What are we eating?
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2018
What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant la...
Privatising the Oceans: Fished out in our Lifetimes
Mora, Jean-Sebastien
Article
2013
Long-range fishing with the backing of the EU deprives countries elsewhere in the world of employment and a crucial food source. And it is depleting the seas to the point of ecological collapse.
Sea of Slaughter
Mowat, Farley
Book
1986
Documents the white European's onslaught on the North American continent, and its devastating results for other life. Mowat writes of the slaughter of buffalo and walrus, wolves and whales, of the vi...
This is Your Ocean on Acid: The Big Picture
Z, Mickey
Article
2014
More than 40 percent of the world’s oceans are heavily impacted by human activities with few areas — if any — left unaffected by anthropogenic factors. This means we humans (and what we deem civilizat...
The Unnatural History of the Sea
Roberts, Callum
Book
2011
A history of the commercial fishery and an update on its precarious and untenable siituation. The age old delusion that the sea is an inexhaustible resource has resulted in a fishing arms race that co...

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Greenpeace Canada
Active in a wide variety of environmental campaigns, Greenpeace is effective at educating the public through creative, non-violent direct actions, researching alternatives to destructive practices and...
David Suzuki Foundation
Since 1990, the David Suzuki Foundation has worked to find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world that sustains us. Focussing on four program areas -- oceans and sustainable fishin...

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Senegal's fishing community will act on foreign fleets if government doesn't
Senegal's fisherman blame foreign trawlers for taking their catch
Vidal, John
2012
Annual catches by local fishermen in Senegal are down seventy-five percent from catches ten years ago, resulting in hunger and economic instability. Community leaders in Senegal are warning developed ...
War on the seabed: the shellfishing battle
Renton, Alex
2013
In the fertile inshore waters of the west coast of Scotland, a battle is brewing between small-boat fisherman and industrial trawlers.