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Engineering a large sustainable world fishery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1997

IAN S. F. JONES  and
HELEN E. YOUNG
IAN S. F. JONES
Affiliation:
Ocean Technology Group, University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia
HELEN E. YOUNG
Affiliation:
Earth Ocean and Space Pty Ltd. , Glebe, NSW 2037, Australia
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Abstract

Mankind is faced with three interconnected problems, those of rising population, the provision of adequate food and the increasing level of waste carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The ocean plays an important role at present by annually providing c. 90 Mt of high protein food and absorbing about 1000 Mt of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. By the year 2100 it is predicted by the United Nations (1992) that the world population will have more than doubled its 1990 level of 5.2 thousand million people and will approach 11.5 thousand million. Most of this population increase will occur in the developing countries.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , June 1997 , pp. 99 - 104
Copyright
© 1997 Foundation for Environmental Conservation

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