The Asian Development Bank’s annual meeting this year was in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and sustainable fisheries were hot on the agenda.

The Fisheries Economics Research Unit’s Dr. Rashid Sumaila was in attendance to speak about the importance of overfishing to Asia, which, consumes more than two thirds of the landings from the world’s marine environments.

Dr. Sumaila was also among others concerned with fisheries at the meeting such as Henk Brus, who believes that wider tuna nets that allow younger fish through will not only make tuna fisheries more sustainable but profitable as well.

via Chem.info