We win key victories for the oceans that stop overfishing, reduce bycatch, limit pollution, preserve habitat and protect wildlife.
The most important elements of EBFM are keeping fishing mortality rates low enough to prevent ecosystem-wide overfishing, reducing or eliminating by-catch and avoiding habitat-destroying fishing methods.
Among other things, the report found that "by stopping overfishing, reducing discards at sea and protecting [the oceans'] most productive areas," the world "can not only recover wild fisheries, we can also protect diverse ocean ecosystems".
Cod numbers have been slow to recover after overfishing drastically reduced their numbers, according to Cefas.
The certification depends on a host of factors, such as not overfishing and reducing bycatch the accidental killing of birds, turtles, and other animals.
Poaching, smuggling and overfishing have reduced the sturgeon stocks in the Caspian Sea, where sturgeon that produce caviar are found naturally, by more than 90percentt since the late 1970's.
Throughout the bay, high mortality due to disease, as well as overfishing, had reduced the population to about 1percentt of 19th-century levels.
But it takes a philosopher to uncover its spiritShell shockThe lobster population in New England has boomed in recent years as overfishing has reduced competitors.
Overfishing has reduced much of the world's wild sturgeon stocks to the verge of extinction, and not just in the Baltic and Black Seas, but in North America as well.
For years scientists thought that the threespot damselfish was nibbling star coral to death because overfishing had reduced its natural predators.
