Escaping fishing bans

Nations have come together to ban international fishing, especially from poachers, in the international waters of the Arctic and Antarctic. These areas have opened up because of the loss of ice, and since then, fleets of ships have come for deep-sea fishing. Environmental groups, in particular, have welcomed the agreement. However, violators of industrial scale have never paid heed, hence, major fishing grounds are fast diminishing.

Disappearing species

Large fish such as the toothfish are no longer thriving in the ocean floors they way they had in the past decades. This has been a cause for alarm for groups, such as the Sea Shepherd, whose main goal is to protect the world’s vast ocean