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Published August
2004
LGVN Oceans / Sea Life and Sea Birds Extinction
Time
is Running out for Sea Life
Quantities
of fish and sea mammals continue to decline at an alarming rate
across all the oceans of the world. This is mainly due to overfishing
on a massive scale. Nearly every country in the world is to blame
for this:
In the North Sea cod are disappearing. They are not growing to full
size and are being netted before they can breed.
Pollutants are also blamed for the dissipating numbers. This is
also affecting seabirds along the UK coastline as numbers are rapidly
declining. The number of Kittiwakes has said to have fallen by 50%
in the last five years.
Fishing
for sandeels in the North Sea has now been banned. Many seabirds
who fed on the sandeel have declined in numbers and overfishing
of sandeels was blamed for the worst breeding season on record in
2004. However the RSPB say that even in 2005 seabirds have delayed
breeding due to a mass shortage of food. Climate change is also
a major cause of sandeel decline. In
additiona to this, scientists say that many other species of fish
may completely dissapear from the North Sea by 2050.
World fish
numbers now believed to be much lower than previously thought. China
has been named as the culprit for distorted figures on world fish
stocks.
Analysts say
that Chinese officials have been lying about the number of fish
being caught in their regions in an attempt to cover up over fishing
practices. It turns out that China are catching far fewer fish than
they claim, simply because they have over fished their regions.
Researchers say this has led the Food and Agriculture Organisation
to believe that global fish catches had increased, but in fact they
have actually been dwindling due to depleting sea life, caused by
overfishing.
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