After speaking to the gentleman at Tarbett's Fishmongers, he decided to email me his costs and catching methods of each fish that he orders in. Although I am very grateful for this information, it proves my previous research that fishmongers and fish markets are ordering a lot of fish on a daily, weekly basis and this is not helping the situation of overfishing. On the list below you can clearly see how many different types of fish he orders as well as the amount of each fish there are. There are numerous amounts of salmon, cod, haddock fish choices. Take haddock fillets for example, they are either line caught, seine or trawled and come from various different countries.
From this document alone we can see that fish are being ordered at a very high rate. Worldwide, fishing fleets are two to three times as large as needed to take present day catches of fish and other marine species and as what our oceans can sustainably support. Therefore by fishmongers and fish markets requiring more fish the boats that provide the fish need to be able to catch more.
Here is a recent article I found on overfishing and how seafood could end by the end of 2048. It says how research shows that if we continue as we are going now fishing 2 or 3 times more than we should then this is the last century of wild sea food. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/overfishing-could-take-se/
According to an analysis of 64 large marine ecosystems, which provide 83 percent of the world's seafood catch, global fishing yields have declined by 10.6 million metric tons since that year. And if that trend is not reversed, total collapse of all world fisheries should hit around 2048. "Unless we fundamentally change the way we manage all the oceans species together, as working ecosystems, then this century is the last century of wild seafood."
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