Species Collapse, Jack Mackerel
2012
Jack mackerel "…is reduced to feed for aquaculture and pigs. It can take more than five kilograms, more than 11 pounds, of jack mackerel to raise a single kilogram of farmed salmon... Stocks have dropped from an estimated 30 million metric tons to less than a tenth of that in two decades. The world's largest trawlers, after depleting other oceans, now head south toward the edge of Antarctica to compete for what is left.”
Chandler, Candace. "Big Trouble, Little Fish" 1.28.2012 <http://www.globalanimal.org/2012/01/28/trouble-in-the-food-chain/64290/
Courtesy of NMFS/Southwest Fisheries Science Center
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