Photo Gallery Vanishing Fish
The oceans are a primary source of food for mankind. Fishing provides 200 million people with income, too -- meager as it may be. But growing demand and the industrial-scale exploitation of the seas are destroying global fish populations.
A floating tank of bluefin tuna is towed from fishing grounds off Libya to tuna farms off Sicily.
Foto: AFP
Globalization: A Japanese fisherman loads tuna caught at a farm near the mid-Adriatic Croatian town of Zadar.
Foto: AFP
The worldwide popularity of sushi has decimated tuna populations.
Foto: REUTERS
Greenpeace activists against dragnet fishing.
Foto: AFP
Overfishing by the numbers.
Foto: DER SPIEGEL
Dieser Beitrag stammt aus dem SPIEGEL-Archiv. Warum ist das wichtig?