World fisheries day: Balochistan’s vanishing catch

World fisheries day: Balochistan’s vanishing catch

Pakistan's marine fisheries sector, rich in biodiversity and coastal productivity, remains an example of structural inequity, provincial marginalisation, and short-sighted resource exploitation. Nowhere is this imbalance more visible than in Balochistan, a province that contributes the majority of Pakistan’s fresh marine fish catch yet receives only a fraction of the economic and export benefits. Most seafood exports are routed through Karachi’s…