Boat International - February 2016

http://www.boatinternational.com | February 2016

ON BOAR

DA NG E R I N

THE DEEP

From the dizzying economic costs of irresponsible fishing

to the rich results of good practice, ocean preservation

is a matter we can’t aford to float over

A litle good news...

Between 1996 and 2006,

annual cod catches in the

North Sea fell from 80,000

to 20,000 tonnes - the cod

lifecycle is badly affected by

bottom trawling. After strict

controls, stocks rocketed

from 20,000 to 70,000

tonnes in eight years.

...and a lot more

After years of heavy hunting, in

the 1960s humpback whales in the

southern hemisphere started to run

out. In the mid 1960s, only 200 were

counted off the Queensland coast,

down from thousands. In the 2015

migration season, after decades of

an Australian hunting ban, 26,000

whales were counted off the

Queensland coast and the Australian

humpback population is increasing

by 11 per cent a year.

Infographics - Fernando Volken Togni