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Big fish gone

Large fish are almost all gone in the world's oceans. What will happen to all fish stocks in the next while? Another example of humans plowing recklessly through our world.

"For example, there were 200,000 large bluefin tuna removed from off the coast of Brazil in the first 15 years of the Japanese longline fishery and in the last 15 years off Brazil, with similar effort, the Japanese fishery has caught exactly zero fish."


"The last sharks are declining at a great pace and unless we reduce the number of hooks in the water by 50-60% the large sharks will go extinct - we will have no more hammerheads, no more great whites, no more large threshers.
"These species will go the way of the dinosaurs unless we take worldwide action to preserve the diversity in the marine ecosystem."


BBC May 14, 2003

(weird stuff: one of the pricipal investigators in this fish story is named "Worm". Conflict of interest, anyone?)

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