Living Blue Planet Report

Chapter 1: The state of our blue planet page 19 Figure 14: Population trends in two commercial fish species from the Southern Oc ...

Living Blue Planet Report page 20 Antarctic krill Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) is central to the food chain in the Southe ...

Chapter 1: The state of our blue planet page 21 Climate change and krill Krill are vulnerable to impacts associated with climate ...

CHAPTER TWO: OUR OCEAN UNDER PRESSURE On Robben Island in South Africa’s Western Cape, a jackass penguin covered with oil from a ...

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Living Blue Planet Report page 24 300% Our ocean under pressure 50% DESTROYED Half the world’s corals and a third of all seagras ...

Chapter 2: Our ocean under pressure page 25 80% of all tourism is based near the sea (Honey and Krantz, 2007). More than a third ...

Living Blue Planet Report page 26 “The cod fishery, the herring fishery, the pilchard fishery, the mackerel fishery, and probabl ...

Chapter 2: Our ocean under pressure page 27 in 2007 (FAO, 2014b). For some species, the increased fishing pressure has had an ad ...

Living Blue Planet Report page 28 0 50 60 70 80 10 20 30 40 90 100 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2011 Percentage ...

Chapter 2: Our ocean under pressure page 29 Key Aquaculture “With the world’s population predicted to increase to 9 billion peop ...

Living Blue Planet Report page 30 Prawn farms in Vietnam Aquaculture, and in particular shrimp farming, is a key economic sector ...

Chapter 2: Our ocean under pressure page 31 Tourism Tourism is one of the largest and fastest-growing industries in the world. C ...

Living Blue Planet Report page 32 Galapagos: infrastructure and tourism In a little over three decades, the Galapagos has been t ...

Chapter 2: Our ocean under pressure page 33 Climate change The ocean regulates our climate and drives the weather determining ra ...

Living Blue Planet Report page 34 Climate change in the Arctic With only 4 million people spread over more than 32 million squar ...

Chapter 2: Our ocean under pressure page 35 Extractives To meet our ever-increasing demands for fossil fuels and mineral resourc ...

Living Blue Planet Report page 36 Oil and gas in the Arctic Oil and gas is the most widely discussed and most controversial reso ...

Chapter 2: Our ocean under pressure page 37 Mining Mining impacts on marine environments are not a new phenomenon. Marine and co ...

Living Blue Planet Report page 38 Until the 1970s, dumping rubbish in the ocean had been an accepted practice for centuries. Mar ...