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2018
2018: The EU is the world’s largest importer of seafood
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2019
2019: In the past 60 years, we lost ~ 90 % of large marine fish because of overfishing
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2020
2020: It takes only 15 years for a industrialized fishery to reduce a fish stock by 80 %
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2021
2021: 70 % of all world fish populations are unsustainably overexploited
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2022
2022: 30 % of all world fish populations are already collapsed
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2023
2023: Over 80 % of fish is caught in the waters of developing or third world countries
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2024
2024: 11 - 26 million tons of fish are caught illegaly every year, being worth $10 - $23.5 billion
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2025
2025: More than 4.6 million fishing vessels are exploting the oceans
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2026
2026: Unsustainable fisheries and thereby overfishing is subsidized with over $16 billion
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2027
2027: People in Europe consume 22.5 kg of seafood every year
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2028
2028: The high seas are home to 90 % of marine life, yet they have no legal protection
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2029
2029: One third of the global fish catch is used for the production of fishmeal and fish oil
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2030
2030: Over 300.000 small whales, dolphins, and porpoises die in fishing nets each year
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2031
2031: 40 % of fish catch is “bycatch”, thrown back into the sea dead or seriously injured
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2032
2032: Until today we have discovered over 33.000 different species of fish
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2033
2033: Orange roughy populations collapsed in only 10 years and still haven’t recovered
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2034
2034: For every kilo of shrimp, 5-20 kilos of other marine life is killed as bycatch
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2035
2035: Between 1990 and 2008 more than 1.5 million sea turtles were unintetionally caught
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2036
2036: 1 - 2.8 trillion individual animals are killed every year (96 % of all vertebrates are fish)
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2037
2037: 95 % of the ocean are still undiscovered
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2038
2038: Potential of sustainable fishing for the EU: 92.000 jobs each year
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2039
2039: Without governmental subsidies 54 % of high sea fishing would not be profitable
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2040
2040: It takes 2.5 - 5 kg of fish feed to raise 1 kg of carnivorous fish in aquaculture
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2041
2041: In 2050 the ocean could contain more plastics than fish (by weight)
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2042
2042: 144-meter-long Annelies Ilena can process 350 tons of fish a day and store 7.000 tons
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2043
2043: 100 million sharks are killed every year, mainly for traditional “shark fin soup” in Asia
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2044
2044: Only about 4 % of the world’s oceans are protected
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2045
2045: The Pacific Bluefin Tuna population collapsed to only 2.6 % of its original size
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2046
2046: Approx. 640.000 tons of 'ghost nets' are left in oceans each year and stay for 600 years
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2047
2047: The 20-meters-long and 34-tons-weighing whale shark is the biggest fish on Earth
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2048
2048: Every second breath we take from atmospheric oxygen produced by algae
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