Atlantic Ocean - Fisheries, Marine Life, Conservation

Atlantic Ocean - Fisheries, Marine Life, Conservation: The Atlantic’s major fishing grounds—representing more than half the world’s total—long were the most productive and most heavily utilized of all the oceans. For some time, many Atlantic species have been intensively fished, and some key populations are thought to be at or near collapse. While the total global marine catch increased steadily over the second half of the 20th century, that for the Atlantic remained fairly constant. Consequently, the Atlantic’s share of the overall marine catch dropped from more than half in the 1950s to roughly one-fifth by the time the global catch leveled off in the early 21st
Atlantic Ocean, body of salt water covering about one-fifth of Earth’s surface and separating the continents of Europe and Africa to the east from those of North and South America to the west. Its name, derived from Greek mythology, means the ‘Sea of Atlas.’ It is second in size to the Pacific Ocean.

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