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Keywords
Commercial fishing
Day
Fish
Fisheries
Fishing (Industry)
Fishing nets
KWCI (GPI)
Oceans (campaign title)
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Juvenile Fish in a Fishing Net in Shidao
Two dead juvenile fish in a fishing net. Shidao, Shandong Province, China.
The fishing of juvenile and "trash" fish - fish too young and/or too small for human consumption - is being fed by huge demand from China's booming aquaculture industry, which uses them as fish feed.
In original language:
渔网里的两条小鱼
2016年12月,山东石岛,渔网里的两条小鱼。近海无鱼的出路到底在哪?靠海吃饭的渔民说,“船少一点、网眼大一点,让小鱼长大再捕,就不愁没有好鱼”;渔业资源研究者说,“使用替代饲料,或是生态养殖,任何鱼虾的养殖都可以实现使用‘零’鱼粉饲料”;关心海洋的艺术家说,“我们如果不是仅仅把海洋看做我们的食物来源,其实,海洋可以给我们更多”。
Unique identifier:
GP0STQYHM
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
18/12/2016
Locations:
Asia
,
China
,
East Asia
,
Shandong
Credit line:
© Zhu Li / Greenpeace
Ranking:
★★★★★★ (B)
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Overfishing of Juvenile Fish in China
In December 2016, Greenpeace documented the intense overfishing of juvenile and "trash" fish - fish too young and/or too small for human consumption - in Shandong province, one of the major fishery regions in China. Greenpeace East Asia's investigation estimates that up to one third of China's total annual catch is "trash fish" - that is equivalent to the entire annual catch of Japan.
Overfishing over the past 30 years has destroyed much of the cycle of life in China’s waters. As result there are fewer and fewer mature fish. What’s left are quantities of juvenile fish, called “trash fish” by fishermen. Inedible for humans, the trash fish are processed for use as aquaculture feed. China has the world’s largest aquaculture industry. It consumes more than 7 million of domestic wild fish yearly and that demand is driving intensive fishing of juvenile fish. A vicious cycle causing even more damage to China’s seas.
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