I feel like I've been reading this same article again and again my entire life, from the collapse of the cod fishery in '93 until now, we continue to learn nothing and make the same mistakes.
Depressing.
Depressing.
After 20+ years, you need to realize the doomsayers were wrong.
This mostly fixed the problem but demand keeps on increasing along with changes to water temperature, so local collapses in specific populations are becoming a big problem again.
Seabird populations have declined by 70% since the 1950's.
Studies estimate that up to 40% of all marine life caught is thrown overboard as bycatch.
Six out of seven species of sea turtles are either threatened or endangered due to fishing.
Over 300,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises are killed as bycatch every year.
2.7 trillion fish are caught every year, or up to 5 million caught every minute.
Fish populations are in decline to near extinction.
I wonder if fisheries recover? For example what’s the state of North Atlantic fisheries?
> The trawlers also caught enormous amounts of non-commercial fish, which were economically unimportant but very important ecologically.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_the_Atlantic_nor...
Wikipedia ends it's history with:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_the_Atlantic_north...
> In 2015, two reports on cod fishery recovery suggested stocks may have recovered somewhat.[56][2][57]
> A Canadian scientist reported that, cod were increasing in numbers, health, normalizing in maturity and behavior, and offered a promising estimate of increased biomass in particular areas.[2]
> A US report suggested that a failure to consider reduced resilience of cod populations due to increased mortality in warming surface water of the Gulf of Maine had led to overfishing despite regulation. Thus, overestimates of stock biomass due to generalization of local estimates and ignorance of environmental factors in the growth or recovery potential of a cod fishery would lead to mismanagement and further collapse of stocks, through further unsustainable quotas, as in the past.[58][59]
> In June 2018, the federal government reduced the cod quota, finding that the cod stocks had fallen again after just two years of fair catches.
https://hakaimagazine.com/features/in-cods-shadow-redfish-ri...
While people are clearly happy about the return of this fish, seems clear there's a lot of uncertainty around what to do next and whether fishing for it is a good idea.