What is currently being done to adress the problem? Is it working? What progress has been made? What more is there to do?

There are a lot of things that are being done in an attempt to stop or slow down overfishing. People have suggested to set laws stating thatn you are not allowed to catch certain species of fish, which would help to get the population of these fish back up. There are a lot of other things that we can do to address this problem. Among these solutions is setting up marine reserves. Marine reserves are areas in the ocean that are closed off to fishing and other outside forces. Marine reserves allow fish to live in safety and hopefully reproduce. Besides setting up marine reserves, there are many other things we can do to help solve this problem.

The above photo shows the Green Peace group promoting marine reserves in order to stop overfishing, which is gradually depleting the world's supply of tuna.

Sources:

http://www.un.org/events/tenstories/06/story.asp?storyID=800


http://www.greenpeace.org/australia/issues/overfishing/solutions


http://www.greenpeace.org/australia/issues/overfishing/solutions/political/marine-reserves

Source of picture:

http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/image_full/international/photosvideos/photos/greenpeace-activists-take-acti-3.jpg