In Dead Water: Merging of climate change with pollution, over-harvest, and infestations in the world's fishing grounds

Publisher:
United Nations Environment Programme
Publication Date:
22 February 2008
Tags:
Africa, Climate, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Oceans and Rivers

Climate change is emerging as the latest threat to the world's dwindling fish stocks a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) suggests. At least three quarters of the globe's key fishing grounds may become seriously impacted by changes in circulation as a result of the ocean's natural pumping systems fading and falling they suggest.

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