Table Talk

According to the United Nations, a large percentage of fisheries are overfished. In many parts of the world there simply are not enough fish to catch and make a profit.  72% of the world is ocean and one-in-three of the fish on your plate are considered to be fished unsustainably. Given that there are billions of people who depend on fishing, either as food or a source of income, something has to change. Both for the industry and for the wider health of our oceans. It is not known how long we can go on fishing the way we are globally, but there is general consensus that it is not too late to turn things around. The idea of sustainable fishing is nothing new. But the question is, which methods used by the fishing industry are actually sustainable? And how realistic is it to think we will get a vast global industry to adopt them? In this episode of the Food Matters Live podcast, we look what the impact would be if we carried on as we are, on fish stocks, local economies and on food security. And we ask: