:::Saving a precious resource:::
We are working for healthy and well-managed fisheries, as well as for fishing practices that no longer negatively impact on marine habitats and other marine species.
What's the problem?
Unsustainable fishing - caused by poor fisheries management and wasteful, destructive fishing practices - is decimating the world's fisheries, as well as destroying marine habitats and killing billions of unwanted fish and other marine animals each year. As a result, the future of the fishing industry is under threat - as are already endangered marine species and habitats, and the livelihoods and food security of millions of people.
Many within the fishing industry are working towards healthy, sustainable marine ecosystems to provide a future for their livelihoods. WWF’s Global Marine Programme is working with these legitimate, proactive players, with the long-term aim that the world’s fisheries will be healthy and well-managed and that fishing will no longer negatively impact on marine habitats and other marine species. Bringing conservation into fisheries managementThe basis for our fisheries work is ecosystem-based management (EBM) - which aims to achieve sustainable exploitation of natural resources by balancing the social and economic needs of human communities with the maintenance of healthy ecosystems.Using the EBM framework, we are engaging with the fishing industry to:
Improve fisheries management
Reduce the impacts of fishing
Promote sustainably caught seafood
SAVE THE CORAL REEFS, every effort counts
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