• 17% of world’s commercial fisheries have been overexploited
• 7% are depleted
• 1% are in recovery
• The Northeast and Northwest Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black seas have the largest number of depleted stocks.
• In 2005, the total global commercial catch of fish totaled 93.8 million tons
• 9.6 million tons of freshwater fish
• 84.2 million tons of saltwater fish

Asia and Africa have the world’s largest freshwater commercial fisheries