News
10 April 2014
Confirmation of fishing’s relatively low ecological footprint was provided recently in the publication of the European Environment Agency statistics on energy use by sector.
Fisheries
are lumped together with agriculture and forestry but this group has the lowest
consumption of fossil energy in oil/tonnes equivalent by sector.
http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/daviz/total-final-energy-consumption-by-sector#tab-chart_4