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FAO’s 2025 Global Fisheries Resources Report highlights the current state of marine fisheries, highlighting challenges and successes in sustainable management. It reveals that 35.5% of the world’s fisheries resources are overexploited, with significant regional disparities. However, significant progress is being noted in some areas thanks to rigorous and well-funded management systems. 35.5% of the world’s fisheries resources are overexploited, with marked regional differences, particularly in Northwest Africa, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Areas such as the Pacific coast of the United States and Canada, as well as Australia and New Zealand, have high rates of sustainable fishing. Overfishing is growing at an annual rate of about 1%, but sustainable management systems are helping to restore some stocks, such as tuna. 600 million people depend on fisheries and aquaculture for their livelihoods, whether for consumption, employment or trade. Regarding Africa, the report sounds the alarm on the overexploitation of resources:
- More than half of the fish stocks on the northwest coast of Africa, from Morocco to the Gulf of Guinea, are considered overfished.
- In the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, about 65% of stocks are exploited unsustainably.
Source: Ecofin Agency