Fisheries contribute more than $270 billion to global GDP, employing hundreds of millions of people around the world. Pictured here is a Sorong fish port located in Indonesia's Papua region, where the combination of climate change, overfishing and pollution is destroying ecosystems.
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Fisheries contribute more than $270 billion to global GDP, employing hundreds of millions of people around the world. Pictured here is a Sorong fish port located in Indonesia's Papua region, where the combination of climate change, overfishing and pollution is destroying ecosystems.
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About 1 billion people, mainly in developing countries, rely on fish as their primary animal protein source. This photo shows workers at a wholesale market in Tanjung Karang, a fishing village in Malaysia.
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About 1 billion people, mainly in developing countries, rely on fish as their primary animal protein source. This photo shows workers at a wholesale market in Tanjung Karang, a fishing village in Malaysia.
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An estimated 250 million people in developing countries directly depend on small-scale fisheries for food and income. In this photograph fish are sold at market in Banda Aceh.
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An estimated 250 million people in developing countries directly depend on small-scale fisheries for food and income. In this photograph fish are sold at market in Banda Aceh.
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Oceans around the globe could provide the world with extra $50 billion each year -- if people learned how to manage fisheries in more sustainable way. Pictured here is fisherman Klaus Raack, who started fishing in the Baltic sea when he was 15 and is now 60.
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Oceans around the globe could provide the world with extra $50 billion each year -- if people learned how to manage fisheries in more sustainable way. Pictured here is fisherman Klaus Raack, who started fishing in the Baltic sea when he was 15 and is now 60.
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Unsustainable fisheries threaten to destroy the oceans ecosystems. Penguins have existed on our planet for more than 50 million years but current environmental issues such as climate change and overfishing threaten their survival.
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Unsustainable fisheries threaten to destroy the oceans ecosystems. Penguins have existed on our planet for more than 50 million years but current environmental issues such as climate change and overfishing threaten their survival.
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$274 billion, around 1% of global GDP comes from fisheries every year.
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$274 billion, around 1% of global GDP comes from fisheries every year.
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