I have been doing some in-depth reading and research on the fishing industry, about the impacts of the current large-scale industrial fishing model on marine ecosystems, and how consumer demand for seafood will increase in line with a rapidly growing human population. I read of the grim 2006 prediction made by a group of highly respected marine scientists, who claimed that if we continued down this path, the ocean would be empty of fish by 2048, in about thirty years’ time, well within mine and many others’ lifetimes (the claim was later refuted after peer review and retracted in 2009).

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