Ocean at Risk
The need to feed the world’s ever-increasing human population has led to massive scale and destructive fishing practices in unsustainable proportions, which are destroying large portions of our oceans and the life within them. Our once finely tuned world is fraying. Changes in the atmosphere affect global weather patterns and global warming is an issue the world can no longer ignore as it affects all.
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Large scale nautilus hunters. These fishermen load their boats with 150 bamboo traps and stay out at sea for a week. They can catch from 400 to 800 nautilus in a week. The nautilus of the Sulu Seas has almost been wiped out and these fishermen have moved on to new areas in the South China Sea. | Balabac | Philippines