Netting food / profit
This Iraqi fisher and the men on the island of Granada work hard with small boats and nets to earn a living and feed their communities. But the global demand for fish today far outstrips their capacity, and most of the fish we eat comes from the massive factory fishing industry that covers more than 55 percent of ocean surface—more than four times that covered by agriculture. Many operations deploys giant nets, known as “walls of death,” that can span seven miles, indiscriminately sweeping up tons of desirable and unusable ocean life alike. China alone, having depleted its own waters, has 3,000 factory ships plying the world’s oceans.
To support smaller local fishers, check out ones near you on this interactive map. And to find out which fish and seafood are sustainably caught, an excellent resource is Monterey Bay Aquarium’s consumer guides.
Great pictures and excellent comment (though I thought I couldn't get any more catastrophic in my thinking and this is a new entry in the panolply). I'll check out svenfish -- thank you for the link.
Thank you. I need to eat more seafood and less pork and chicken so this is useful for me.