🐟 Fishing series: A few climate conscious guidelines to buying fish: Difference between revisions

“Artisanal fishing”, also know as “small-scale fishing“ is far from being an <i>underground model</i>. Indeed, this fishery employs 12 million people across the planet, as opposed to industrial fishing, employing a little over 500 thousand workers but receiving almost 80% of public subsidies. Artisanal fishing is said<ref>Jacquet and Pauly (2008) <i>Funding priorities: big barriers to small-scale fisheries.</i> Conservation Biology 22(4): 832-835.</ref> to use, for the same volume of production as industrial fishing, only 1/8 of the fuel. Being small-scale, this model insures the preservation of marine ecosystems, the respect of fishing quotas and, in a majority of cases, fair wages and amount of working hours for fishermen/women.