Facts about Fisheries an Aquaculture

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Environmental Sciences, printed single-sided, grade: 2,0, University of Applied Sciences Constanze, course: Environmental Economics, 19 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Fish represents a major component of the food supply for the world's population.It makes a very significant contribution to the diet of many fish consumingcommunities in both the developed and developing world. It is accounting for almostone-fifth of all animal protein in the human diet.Fisheries and Aquaculture remain very important to many countries and communitiesas a source of food, employment and revenue.Although fish is a renewable resource, it is also destructible. Current fishing levelsand methods place significant pressure on world fisheries and marine ecosystems.[...]