Stopping some fishing would increase overall catches

Re:Stopping some fishing would increase overall catches by freddie_mercury on Sunday November 08, 2020 @08:12PM (#25030524)

I live in Vietnam and I can believe it. Here's a map of the world showing where people eat fish. It is basically a list of places where Americans are unlikely to go.

https://imgur.com/Snc2PvR

Asia accounts for 71% of world fish consumption. In places like Bangladesh, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia fish makes up over 50% of all animal protein consumed.

Unless you've travelled widely in Asia, especially outside of the rich up & coming cities with restaurants catering to foreign tourist palates and ate in local places, it would make sense that you haven't seen it.

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Re:Stopping some fishing would increase overall catches by porknubbins on Sunday November 08, 2020 @10:14PM (#25031134)

Thats an interesting map, I did not realize that fish was such a big source of protein in those countries, although even at 10gr/day its not a huge component of the diet so overall animal protein must be low.

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Re:Stopping some fishing would increase overall catches by ketzo on Monday November 09, 2020 @01:55AM (#25032056)

I was curious, so I looked it up -- it seems like fish is about 25% protein by volume at most, so that's ~40g or 1.4oz; definitely not a ton.

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