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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/un/fisheries

17% of fish stocks are being over-exploited, says FAO

Brussels, 05/03/2007 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 5 March, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) published its latest (biannual) report on the global situation with fisheries and aquaculture which reveals that in 2005, 52% of the world's fish stocks had been fully exploited. 20% of stocks were moderately exploited, 17% were over-exploited, 7% depleted and only 1% were “recovering from depletion”. These figures have been more or less the same 15 years, but the...

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