Industrialized fishing practices are a primary threat to marine life worldwide. Global fish stocks are being overharvested at ecologically and economically indefensible levels. Heavily subsidized commercial fisheries undermine sensitive ocean ecosystems, threaten climate stability, jeopardize global food security, and imperil marine wildlife. Fisheries and aquaculture contribute nutrition, income, and livelihoods for hundreds of millions of people around the world—but at a high cost to marine ecosystems. Fish is one of the most-traded food commodities worldwide. Destructive fishing methods, such as bottom trawling and drift net fisheries, destroy delicate marine habitats, including coral reef, seagrass, and seabed communities. 

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