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Fishing the Feed
The ocean covers two-thirds of our planet and plays a crucial role in sustaining life on Earth. However, overfishing, pollution, growing demand for natural resources and climate change are placing ocean ecosystems under extreme stress. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) estimates that over 90% of global fish stocks are either overfished (33.1%) or fished to maximum sustainable levels (59.9%). Chronic over-harvesting of fish and other species poses a threat to biodiversity, to the long-term sustainability of fisheries and to the people who depend on them for their lives and livelihoods. Despite these trends, global seafood consumption has doubled over the past 50 years and roughly half of world fish consumption today comes from aquaculture. Proponents of the industry claim aquaculture has the potential to deliver affordable, healthy protein and could provide a way of diverting pressure from wild fish stocks. However, the industry is failing to deliver on this promise due to its continued reliance on wild-caught fish; almost one-fifth of the world’s total catch of wild fish is processed into fishmeal and fish oil that is fed to farmed fish. This campaign highlights the impacts of using wild-caught fish to feed farmed fish on marine ecosystems and food security and sheds light on murky global supply chains.