What's Wrong With Fish?!

Title: What's Wrong With Fish?!

Author: Dos Winkel

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789038918570

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WHAT'S WRONG WITH FISH?!
Today, as consumers, we are told everywhere that we should regularly consume fish and fish oil. This would protect us from all kinds of allergies, stomach and intestinal problems, and especially from cardiovascular diseases and forms of brain degeneration, including Alzheimer's disease. Even vegetarians, under pressure from doctors, are taking fish oil capsules or eating fish after all.
As an underwater photographer, Dos Winkel has seen the world below the sea change dramatically over the past 25 years. Mangrove forests and coral reefs, the nurseries for hundreds of fish species, are disappearing like snow in the sun. Currently, some 80 billion kilograms of fish are officially caught each year (this does not include illegally caught fish, which is estimated at around 30 billion kilos, and bycatch, which is also estimated at 30-35 billion kilos. Bycatch refers to unwanted catch that is thrown overboard dead or seriously mutilated as being worthless. Of all fish stocks, approximately 75% is seriously overfished and the species no longer have a chance to reproduce. Add to this the global slaughter of sharks (compared to the 1980s, shark stocks are 90% smaller), which is causing an enormous disruption of the biological balance, and the fish oil hype (depending on the type of fish, 20-100 kilograms of wild fish are needed for 1 litre of fish oil, of which more than 1 billion litres are produced each year), and you will understand that it will not be long before the forecast of British science journalist Charles Clover comes true: the seas will be empty.
It was time for an objective investigation into the health aspects of fish and fish oil and especially the alternatives.