Black Scabbardfish
Deepsea fish are highly vulnerable to over-exploitation and have a low resilience to fishing. There is currently very little data on the deepsea ecosystem and fish stocks, thus it is almost impossible to manage and enforce deepsea fisheries sustainably. Due to the international nature of many of the deep sea fisheries on the high seas, compliance with any regulations can be low, and due to the dificulties in enforcement on the high seas, there can be large problems with Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported catches. Deepsea fishing gear is often comprised of heavy bottom towed gear which is extremely detrimental to the ecosystem and can decimate productive deepsea areas such as seamounts and oceanic ridges. Static gear has less of an impact on the seabed but is still detrimental to fish stocks. It can be easily lost and will then continue to ghost fish for a long period of time, causing further detriment to deep sea stocks. Avoid deepsea fish species
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