There will be virtually nothing left to fish from the seas by the middle of the century if current trends continue, according to a major scientific study.
The article continues:
Stocks have collapsed in nearly one-third of sea fisheries, and the rate of decline is accelerating.Writing in the journal Science, the international team of researchers says fishery decline is closely tied to a broader loss of marine biodiversity.
The last century of fish:
"What we're highlighting is there is a finite number of stocks; we have gone through one-third, and we are going to get through the rest," he told the BBC News website.Steve Palumbi, from Stanford University in California, one of the other scientists on the project, added: "Unless we fundamentally change the way we manage all the ocean species together, as working ecosystems, then this century is the last century of wild seafood."
Wow! That is disturbing.
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