Shoppers urged to help fish preservation

SHOPPERS were urged yesterday to do their bit to keep fisheries afloat by choosing their fish products carefully.

Shoppers urged to help fish preservation

Scientists warned that global fish stocks could be wiped out by 2048 if current practices continued, and said shoppers could help by switching from struggling cod to abundant herring and avoiding other vulnerable species.

Dr Boris Worm of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada who led the team of researchers, said while fish like orange roughie were becoming more common on fish counters, they were very slow to reproduce so stocks took a long time to recover.

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