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Article: Fisheries, Marine
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Fisheries, Marine
People enjoy eating seafood, and eat a lot of it. The more than 6 billion people on Earth consume an average of 15.4 kilograms (almost 34 pounds) of seafood (marine and fresh-water plants and animals) each year. Seafood comes from a combination of
capture fisheries
(commercial, recreational, or subsistence) and
aquaculture
.
Although the world's population continues to increase, the amount of seafood harvested worldwide has been nearly level since the early 1990s. Many fisheries have declined, and some have collapsed. Fishermen have found a few previously unexploited populations in recent years, but it is clear that the current production level from capture fisheries ...
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