Study co-authored by Halifax marine biologist reveals fishing’s startling global footprint

Global fishing efforts are so wide ranging that fleets covered more than 460 million kilometres in 2016 – a distance equal to going to the moon and back 600 times. That startling revelation is contained in a newly published study in Science that quantifies fishing’s global footprint for the first time. Read the full story…

New maps show the utterly massive imprint of fishing on the world’s oceans

Humans are now fishing at least 55 percent of the world’s oceans — an area four times larger than the area occupied by humanity’s onshore agriculture.

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Researchers map massive global footprint of industrial fishing

With the help of big data and technology originally designed to prevent ships from colliding, a team of researchers has stitched together the most detailed map yet of fisheries around the globe, which sheds light on just how intensive industrial fishing has become.

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