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Fish transshipment and management

The global transshipment industry had been vital to the world economy. It makes sure goods and other products reach their destinations fast and on time. It is one of the backbones of the world’s commercial fishing industry, a multimillion-dollar network composed of refrigerated cargo vessels crisscrossing the seas and transporting the fish and other seafood caught from the ocean to shore. The practice of transshipment covers a wide range of seafood products like the popular tuna—bigeye, skipjack, and yellowfin—salmon, mackerel, and crab where thousands of fishing vessels transport the catch from the sea to the markets and producers until it reaches your plate. But while it speeds up the process of transporting fish and other edible marine resources, it also has damaging effects like the lack of conservation and management efforts due to overfishing which further threatens the improvement of the health of diminishing fish stocks. As the global population increases by a rate of 1.08