Overfishing will be prevented only with your help

Each one of us is eating an average of 20 kilograms of fish annually. This is almost twice as much of the figure recorded 50 years ago. It does not seem that this figure will ever decrease, because the demand for fish in the world is continuously increasing. However, the problem is that fishing exceeds the production of the world's seas. 

Some 31 percent of world fish stocks and 93 percent of the Mediterranean fish stocks have been drained out because of overfishing. 

You could understand this from the fact that in 2014 Mediterranean members of the European Union have imported 85 percent of the fish they consumed.  

As a result of illegal and pirate fishing, the amount of fish caught has increased to 26 million tons and about to reach 30 percent of the amount of fish caught in the world annually.   

In other words, this is alarming for the seas. Global climate change is another threat. Experts are warning that soon there will be no fish to catch, grow or eat. However, 800 million people in the world are dependent on fish both for nutrition and to make a living. 

Even though governments and the fishing sector are trying to prevent this, the overfishing done to meet the increasing demand makes these efforts void. 

Well, what are we going to do? Are we going to give up eating fish? 

There is a non-extreme option. By selecting the fish we eat, we can protect fish stocks and people whose lives are dependent on these stocks. 

Correct choice of consumers can affect millions of people. 

The World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) has issued a "Which Fish" guide on sea products recommending diversity of seafood to protect the fish stocks in seas.   

In this guide, there are 10 different cooking...