![]() ![]() The "factory ships" outreached everything: these boats stay at sea nearly all the time, and all the necessary supplies and exchanges pass through other boats that come to meet them.Īnother extreme fishing practice is trawling. Boats got bigger and bigger, going always further and fishing always deeper. From then on, with all the technological progresses (sonar, synthetic fibres, on-board freezing, etc.) fishing quantities always kept increasing. The practice of an intensive fishing really began after the Second World War, especially in the North Atlantic. In 1946 already, the question of overexploitation of marine resources was mentioned for the North Sea during an international conference in London. It is therefore a crucial question for many people: at present time, with our scientific knowledge, can we predict fishes' future? Back in 1946. Marine environments are often vulnerable and the human influences might break, in some cases, a fragile balance that will be very hard to restore afterwards. But fishing, with all its linked activities, is, above all, the profession of 200 million people throughout the world! And all these lives depend on fish's future. For many people, fishing is a nice afternoon, lazily spent by a lake or a riverside. ![]() On their way from the Mediterranean Sea to the Spitzberg, the crew of the Alcyon meet fishing boats of all types and sizes, from the smallest fishing boat to the big trawler. ![]()
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