{"id":52473,"date":"2022-03-03T14:43:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T13:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/?p=52473"},"modified":"2023-09-11T09:43:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T07:43:44","slug":"squids-in-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/publication\/52473\/squids-in-the-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Squids in the Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The importance of cephalopods in sustaining marine ecosystems cannot be overstated. Worldwide, they are a key component of food webs, providing a major prey source for coveted fish species like tunas and salmon, cetaceans like dolphins, sea lions and whales, and a variety of seabirds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-top:max(60%,326px);height:0;width:100%\"><iframe allow=\"clipboard-write\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"position:absolute;border:none;width:100%;height:100%;left:0;right:0;top:0;bottom:0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%233cb0b0&#038;backgroundColorFullscreen=%233cb0b0&#038;d=pto-squid-fishing-report-final&#038;hideIssuuLogo=true&#038;hideShareButton=true&#038;u=greenpeaceinternational\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p>Squids in the Spotlight uncovers the huge scale of the global squid fishery, which has grown over 10-fold since 1950 to almost 5 million tonnes annually in the last decade and is now jeopardising marine ecosystems around the world. Operating out-of-sight in international waters, the meteoric rise of squid fishing and resulting demand for the species has no historical precedent, with some areas seeing a more than 800% increase in the number of vessels in just the last five years.<\/p>\n\n<p>The cumulative impacts of climate change, ocean acidification, pollution and overfishing of vital species like squid make it startlingly evident that humankind is modifying marine ecosystems at a scale never before seen in history.<\/p>\n\n<p>Download the full report: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2022\/03\/e13337d8-squids-in-the-spotlight.pdf\">Squids in the Spotlight<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this report, we examine the expansion of squid fisheries and look at three regions where this expansion has occurred. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":52474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_planet4_optimize_post_is_variant":false,"_planet4_optimize_experiment_name":"","_planet4_optimize_variant_name":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"not set","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[85],"p4-page-type":[62],"class_list":["post-52473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature","tag-oceans","p4-page-type-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52473"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62107,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52473\/revisions\/62107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52473"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=52473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}