GEOG1016 Topic5 Fishery 2015 Handout Colour 20150212

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Nature Conservation for
Sustainable Societies
Professor C Y Jim
Department of Geography
The University of Hong Kong

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SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF
MARINE FISHERIES
INTRODUCTION
GLOBAL FISHERY STATUS
PREVALENCE OF OVERFISHING
SALVAGING GLOBAL FISHERY
CASE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL WHALING
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Earth as a water planet (the blue planet)

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Profuse and diverse marine living resources

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INTRODUCTION
 Inefficient hunting and gathering mainly from marine fish and shellfish

•10% of human protein consumption comes from marine animals

•the bulk of the world’s animal biomass dwells in the seas
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 local, regional and global market source of income and employment traditional culture for some areas
 concentrate on a very small number of species
10 species account for 1/4 of total catch

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