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Interactive: Global fishing hotspots

Published on June 8, 2022

Fish stocks and seas face multiple threats, but marine scientists are working to find solutions to restore our vast blue ecosystem.

Interactive: Global maps of reported fishing, estimates of illegal fishing and estimates of discarded fishing. : James Goldie, 360info CC BY 4.0 Interactive: Global maps of reported fishing, estimates of illegal fishing and estimates of discarded fishing. : James Goldie, 360info CC BY 4.0
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Editors James Goldie
Data and Digital Storytelling Lead, 360info

DOI 10.54377/579c-f057

Fish stocks and seas face multiple threats, but marine scientists are working to find solutions to restore our vast blue ecosystem.

Illegal fishing puts food security at risk and threatens marine ecosystems.

This interactive has been republished for World Fisheries Day. It was first published on June 6, 2022.

Originally published under Creative Commons by 360info™.

Editors Note: In the story “Empty oceans” sent at: 06/06/2022 11:52.

This is a corrected repeat. The suggested width of the interactive is slightly narrowed.

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