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Huge new stock available to overfish and deplete

Fishing down the food web: "having depleted the large predatory fish on top of the food web, (fisheries) turn to increasingly smaller species, finally ending up with previously spurned small fish and invertebrates." (Daniel Pauly and Reg Watson)

I'm fascinated and confused by this new study reported on phys.org about mesopelagic fish (the mesopelagic zone is the area 200-1000 m/650-3300 ft below the surface of the ocean). These are the fascinating bits: The mesopelagic fish biomass is at least 10 times greater than previously thought. 95% of world's fish live in mesopelagic zone. The mesopelagic fish genus … [Read more...]

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