If you study the numbers above you will notice that traditional fishing is not the problem we are facing. So it is not the fish you are eating during your holidays, caught by the local fishermen that is especially harmful for the ocean. Most of the time you are even doing something good for the local community by supporting them.

The real problem are the large industrial fishing ships that stay on the oceans for several months to produce enough fish for our demand. Most of the fish products we find in the large supermarkets come from the large fishing trawlers that are fishing all over the world. It does not only have a bad impact on the marine ecology, the fish stocks, etc. but it also impacts whole societies in developing countries. In West Africa for example a lot of families fear for their existence. For years, they had a small but stable income by fishing in the ocean. But since the big fishing vessels catch off the coast large amount of fish, they hardly find enough to feed their own families.