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Ocean Fish Caught Today
+175 per minute · since 00:00 UTC
Estimated, not measured
Global catch stopped growing decades ago even as fishing effort kept rising. More boats, more fuel and better electronics now bring in roughly the same fish.
Estimated tonnes of wild fish landed since midnight UTC, excluding aquaculture.
Nobody counts this as it happens. EarthNow takes a published figure for the whole day, divides it by the 86,400 seconds in a day, and multiplies by the seconds elapsed since midnight UTC. So the value climbs smoothly and is the right order of magnitude — but the smoothness is arithmetic, not observation. Nothing happening in the world is being watched in real time.
value = daily total ÷ 86,400 × seconds since 00:00 UTC
A consequence worth knowing: the counter resets at midnight UTC, not at your midnight. And because every signal advances at a constant rate, this page cannot tell you whether today is unusual. For that you need a measurement.
~92.3 Mt of wild capture fisheries production per year.
The figure is theirs; the running total is ours. Cite them for the number, and EarthNow for what it looks like as it accumulates.