] A new global study concludes that 90 percent of all large ] fishes have disappeared from the world's oceans in the ] past half century, the devastating result of industrial ] fishing. ] ] The study, which took 10 years to complete and was ] published in the international journal Nature this week, ] paints a grim picture of the Earth's current populations ] of such species as sharks, swordfish, tuna and marlin. ] ] The authors used data going back 47 years from nine ] oceanic and four continental shelf systems, ranging from ] the tropics to the Antarctic. Whether off the coast of ] Newfoundland, Canada, or in the Gulf of Thailand, the ] findings were dire, according to the authors. ] ] "I think the point is there is nowhere left in the ocean ] not overfished," said Ransom Myers, a fisheries biologist ] at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia SNIP This is bad. This is really bad. "Eat mor chikin" CNN.com - Study: Only 10 percent of big ocean fish remain - May. 14, 2003 |