Overfishing of the Oceans
... Because this proves that there are great things in our oceans that we have not even discovered yet. ... Oceans and seas cover seventy-one percent of the earth’s surface. ... The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), based in Rome, reports that seven out of ten, or sixty-nine percent, of the oceans commercially targeted marine fish stocks are either fully or heavily exploited forty-four percent, overexploited sixteen percent, depleted six percent, or very slowly recovering from previous over fishing three percent.