Sustainable growth of aquaculture to ensure our earth remains livable

Curating diverse dialogues around our oceans and blue foods in and beyond our oceans, with Institutional Conveners like EAT, World Economic Forum, CGIAR WorldFish and more, we've become more aware than ever of how urgently we must protect our oceans. We know that oceans are not the problem but a solution to the mix of environmental, health and social challenges. At Convene, we're using the UN World Oceans Day as a chance to highlight some of our key learnings.

Not only do they absorb over 90 percent of the heat that enters the atmosphere, our oceans provide over half of the oxygen we breathe and supply over 3 billion people with a large part of their daily protein needs. They provide health and wellbeing benefits to millions, if not billions of people. In a nutshell: without oceans, humans could not exist on Earth.

Nonetheless, the impact we have on our oceans is devastating. Almost all scientists agree that overfishing presents the biggest current threat to marine biodiversity - simultaneously, they project a 40 percent increase in global demand for food fish by 2030.

Blue Food Assessment's Jim Leape speaks to the critical nature of protecting our oceans:
“As we increasingly depend on food from the oceans, we need a much deeper understanding of how "blue foods" contribute to nutrition, environmental impacts, and local and national economies.”

Sustainable growth of aquaculture will be essential to ensure that our earth remains livable - and we shouldn’t need World Oceans Day to remember that.

Read further in WorldFish’s Director General Dr Essam Yassin Mohammed's insightful article:
https://www.worldfishcenter.org/blog/ushering-shared-prosperity-through-aquatic-food-systems