PART 2. HUMAN ACTIVITY AND THE BIOLOGY OF THE OCEAN 



CHAPTER I. BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES OF THE OCEAN 

 AND POSSIBILITIES FOR INCREASING THEM 



1. Fishery Production of the World Ocean and Its Utilization . 

 (P. A. Moiseev) 



In recent years, many nations of the world have shown increasing 

 interest in the study and utilization of the biologic resources of the 

 ocean. This has resulted primarily from an increasing shortage of 

 animal protein--the most important and irreplaceable component part of 

 the diet of the rapidly growing population of the world. Even today, 

 with the population of the planet approaching 4 billion people, more 

 than one half of the world's people do not receive a sufficient quantity 

 of animal protein, or even are simply starving. This is particularly 

 true of the developing nations of Asia, Africa and Latin America (Table 

 1). 



Table 1. Daily consumption of animal protein by the population of the 

 earth (excluding the Socialist countries), expressed in % of the total 

 population. 



Consumption of Animal Protein 



1938 



1960 



1970 



In Weight Units, g 

 <15 

 15-30 

 >30 



59.0 

 18.9 

 22.1 



60.7 

 19.8 

 19.5 



62.0 

 20.7 

 17.3 



In Calories 



<2200 



2200-2700 



>2700 



38.6 

 30.8 

 30.6 



59.4 

 19.0 

 21.6 



63.0 

 17.0 

 20.0 



Specialists in the area of nutrition believe that the daily 

 consumption of 30 g of animal protein is sufficient for good nutrition, 

 while consumption of less than 15 g per day is insufficient and 

 dangerous for health. Thus, an ever increasing fraction of the world's 

 population, already more than half, is suffering from chronic 

 malnutrition. 



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