Commercial Fishing Collapsing

Imagine, commercial fishing in the oceans gone in 40 years. Given that many countries get most of their protein source from the oceans, this is a serious problem. Of course, the rich will see this as a profit opportunity. They can open fish farms and sell at premium prices. Reminds me of those folks poo pooing global warming, itching to drill for oil at the arctic and antarctic polls.
washingtonpost.com

An international group of ecologists and economists warned yesterday that the world will run out of seafood by 2048 if steep declines in marine species continue at current rates, based on a four-year study of catch data and the effects of fisheries collapses.


[...]The 14 researchers from Canada, Panama, Sweden, Britain and the United States spent four years analyzing fish populations, catch records and ocean ecosystems to reach their conclusion. They found that by 2003 -- the last year for which data on global commercial fish catches are available -- 29 percent of all fished species had collapsed, meaning they are now at least 90 percent below their historic maximum catch levels.


The rate of population collapses has accelerated in recent years. As of 1980, just 13.5 percent of fished species had collapsed, even though fishing vessels were pursuing 1,736 fewer species then. Today, the fishing industry harvests 7,784 species commercially.