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An increasing global population and increase of income among vast populations causes an enormous increase in the demand for animal proteins, such as fish. The current total cathing capacity for worldwide fishing is about twice a big as the capacity of global oceans to 'produce' fish. As a cause of overfishing many fish species declined in number and some of them are threatened to become extinct. But even those fish and animal species, such as turtles, seabirds and marine mammals, which are not a target for fishing, are threatenend to become extinct as they are used for non-sustainable fishing methods as sidecatching or no longer have enough power sources. Even the social consequences can be immense. Through largescale, industrial fishingcorporations working for exportmarkets often operate in countries with a vast market of smallscale, craft fishers, who serve the local markets, are being threathened as well. Local communities will run out of natural power sources, which causes a threat to their food security.