Declining fish stock has been witnessed in past deacdes in the international water as well as in the national water area in the open seas and it has prompted for a serious research to be conducted to find out the hidden reason for this. Jennifer Jacquet, a member of the research team, found out that in Mozambique the official catch reported by the government suggests that each citizen is eating about 3 kg of fish per year. However, when the scientists looked at the catches being made by subsistence fishing, that consumption rate rose to 9 kg a year.
This makes it obvious that the only fish being reported in the national catches are the ones that are traded and the rest is ignored. So the overall picture is wrong.
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