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Threaten millions of humans with starvation and is destroying worldwide 
fish species and fish population


*World faces fish shortage: report*
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Overfishing is threatening more than 
two-thirds of the world's most valuable fish species, triggering fears 
that hundreds of millions of people in mainly developing countries will 
suffer food shortages and losses of income, scientists said Thursday.

Countries, especially in Asia and Africa, should strive harder to combat 
illegal fishing and pursue trade policies and environmental treaties 
that promote sustainable fishing practices, said a report by the World 
Resources Institute, a Washington-based research group.

"It is quite evident there is a fisheries crisis," the report's 
co-author, Carmen Revenga, told a news conference at its launch in Kuala 
Lumpur. "But the general public doesn't realize this is happening, 
because there still seems to be lots of fish in the supermarkets."

About 75 per cent of the world's most commercially important fish stocks 
are overfished or fished at their biological limits, raising concerns of 
looming shortages in developing nations, which produce more than 
two-thirds of all fish eaten by humans globally, Revenga said.

Demand for seafood products - mainly in the consumer markets of the 
United States, the European Union and Japan - has doubled worldwide in 
the last 30 years and will likely rise 1.5 per cent annually through 
2020 as populations and food consumption skyrocket, the report said.

Overfishing to meet demand in the international fish trade - which is 
worth $55 billion US each year - could deplete fisheries, eventually 
jeopardizing ecosystems and sparking social and economic problems, said 
institute researcher Yumiko Kura.

About one billion people, mostly in poorer regions, eat fish as their 
main protein source, while 35 million workers are employed in fishing 
and breeding fish in farms, the report said.

Nevertheless, countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, Norway 
and Chile have mounted strong efforts to curb overfishing, especially by 
tightly enforcing fishing regulations and imposing the use of less 
destructive fishing equipment, Revenga said.u