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Author: Marina Walker Guevara
As aggressive, unregulated fishing continues in the South Pacific, BBC World News will broadcast this weekend a documentary that features the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ recent probe into the plundering of jack mackerel, once one of the world’s most abundant fish.
Jack mackerel might not be familiar at the supermarket fish counter, but you have probably eaten it unaware in bites of farmed salmon. Much of jack mackerel is reduced to feed for pigs and aquaculture. It can take more than 5 kilos of jack mackerel to raise a single kilo of salmon.
The ICIJ investigation revealed that greed, mismanagement and lack of regulation have devastated the fishery — it went from 30 million metric tons to 3 million in just two decades.
Continue reading: http://www.iwatchnews.org/2012/04/20/8688/new-bbc-documentary-spotlights-icij-probe-fish-devastation