Overfishing Threatens European Stocks In a scientific report released this month, Europe is failing to reach their Johannesburg Plan of Implementation aim to manage fisheries sustainably by 2015 and is decades away from the goal. Decades of poor fishery management have resulted in such over-fished waters that even if fishing was halted in 2010, 22% of the stocks are so depleted that they cannot be rebuilt by 2015.
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