Name: 【TED】Jackie Savitz: Save the oceans, feed the world! (Jackie Savitz: Save the oceans, feed the world!)
Uploaded: 2015-02-17T05:23:13.000Z
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saving the oceans is more than an ecological desire.

because we want to create jobs for fishermen

more than a billion hungry people on this planet.

We're expecting that problem to get worse

as world population grows to nine billion

and we can expect to have greater pressure

Now we know that our arable land per capita

in both developed and developing countries.

We know that we're headed for climate change,

which is going to change rainfall patterns,

making some areas drier, as you can see in orange,

in places like the Midwest and Central Europe,

It's going to make it harder for the land

And that's why the oceans need
to be their most abundant,

And that's something the oceans have been doing

As far back as we can go, we've seen an increase

in the amount of food we've been able to harvest

It just seemed like it was continuing to increase,

I hope not. I'm going to come back to that.

But you can see about an 18-percent decline

in the amount of fish we've gotten in our world catch

And this is a big problem. It's continuing.

and that's what I'm going to talk about today.

We know how to turn that curve back upwards.

If we do a few simple things in targeted places,

we can bring our fisheries back and use them

First we want to know where the fish are,

and these are areas that national jurisdictions

Coastal countries tend to have jurisdictions

in areas that are called exclusive economic zones,

and this is a good thing that they can control

the high seas, it's a lot harder to control things,

because it has to be done internationally.

and if any of you are tracking
the climate change agreement,

How many fish are actually in these coastal areas

seven times as many fish in the coastal areas

so this is a perfect place for us to be focusing,

But how many of these countries
do we have to work in?

There's something like 80 coastal countries.

So we asked ourselves, how many countries

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【TED】Jackie Savitz: Save the oceans, feed the world! (Jackie Savitz: Save the oceans, feed the world!)

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