Fish vanishing from Southeast Asian oceans

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http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSSYD22610720071107

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Southeast Asia's oceans are fast running out of fish, putting the livelihoods of up to 100 million people at risk and increasing the need for governments to support the maintenance of fish stocks, an Australian expert said.

Fisheries in the region had expanded dramatically in recent decades and Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines were now in the top 12 fish producing countries in the world, Meryl Williams said in a paper for Australia's Lowy Institute.

"As the fourth largest country in world fish production, Indonesia is a fisheries giant. Yet ... Indonesian marine fisheries resources are close to fully exploited and a significant number in all areas are over-exploited," she said.

Williams, a former director general of the international WorldFish Center, said the number of fishers was still increasing in most Southeast Asian countries despite a trend since the 1980s to close frontiers due to territorial claims and overfishing.

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[Nihil]

1. Must be the dolphins ...

... as we *know* that it's *only* the Western fishermen who over-exploit the seas
and the _________ fishermen *have* to slaughter those rapacious dolphins to protect the
Asian seas ...

:eyes:

> Southeast Asia's oceans are fast running out of fish, putting the livelihoods of
> up to 100 million people at risk and increasing the need for governments to support
> the maintenance of fish stocks, an Australian expert said.

Funny how they only mentioned the "livelihoods" and the need to support "fish stocks"
rather than admitting that many people are going to starve ...