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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