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Sustainable Development
The Government's approach - delivering UK sustainable development
together
During the 1990s the percentage of fish stocks considered to be harvested sustainably was
no more than 20 per cent. By 2000 this was 10 per cent, but has increased to 35 per cent
in 2005.
Despite these increases, these trends show that around 70 to 75 per cent of fish stocks in
seas around the UK have suffered reduced reproductive capacity and have been
harvested unsustainably each year since 2001.
Between 1990 and 2005 landings from the 22 UK fish stocks rose by 46 per cent to 3.6
million tonnes.