The United Nation officials express concern over the growing menace of global warming and its affect on ocean world. They said that world’s major commercial fishing stocks are on the verge of collapse within decades as global warming compounds damage from pollution and overfishing.
According to a U.N. Environment Programme new researches are on to gauge the affect of increasing global warming and other climate changes over the fishing industry. Achim Steiner, head of the programme, said that such rising of global warming is putting a death nail in the coffin of the world fisheries.
Christian Nellemann, research team member, said global warming is disrupting the marine ecosystem and if this mechanism stops, we may risk a collapse in major fishing grounds very soon. Nellemann added that the danger to fish supplies from pollution and overfishing have been well-documented and this was the first time the combined effect of those problems and changing temperatures has been closely studied.
The report suggest that the fisheries could recover if countries reduced global carbon emissions and shipping pollution and stopped overfishing and damaging fishing practices such as bottom trawling. The Worldfish Center has also warned global warming could destroy fisheries. Nellemann opined that more than 50 percent of the world’s coral reefs could die by 2050 because of bleaching caused by higher ocean surface temperatures.
