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Old 05-06-2010, 04:28 PM   #1
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Default Decline in historical fish stocks

The BBC has a story about a decline in the historical fish stocks.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_a...t/10096649.stm

With all the mechanization of the fishing fleet four times more fish were landed a 100 years ago...

The oceans are severely mismanaged...another of those 'tragedy of the commons' things. There are enough fish in the ocean for everyone until there aren't...
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There is historical account after historical account about how early explorers coming to America literally had their ships slowed to a crawl because the shoals of cod off of Newfoundland they were sailing through were so dense. And the first accounts of salmon runs in the Pacific Northwest left explorers astounded by the fantastic numbers of fish.
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there were so many fish in the Bosphorus that one time people could walk across the water during the migration of the flocks ....
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