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» Home » 2012 » October » 25 » African Development Bank: Africa Loses One Million Tonnes of Fish Yearly Due to Illegal Fishing

African Development Bank: Africa Loses One Million Tonnes of Fish Yearly Due to Illegal Fishing

October 25, 2012

Africa loses one million tonnes of fish per year due to overfishing and bad governance in the fisheries sector. The continent’s losses account for one-tenth of annual global losses, said Sumaila Rashid, Director of the Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia in Canada.

“That is the equivalent to 10 million cows a year,” he said, adding that, “Africa alone is losing one million tonnes a year.” According to the fisheries professor, the global fish harvest in 1950 was 10 million tonnes. The tonnage had been growing continually until it levelled in the 1980s at 60 to 70 million tonnes a year.

Read the full article at allAfrica.com.

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