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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
major fisheries that account for the vast majority of seafood that is consumed world wide - salmon, cod, pollock, flatfish (halibut, flounder, sole etc) and crab - with very few exceptions like shrimp in asia and whitefish in south america for example, are almost non-existent in the 3rd world. thats why i am saying that its impossible to suggest that one day fish will just dissapear due to overfishing... its the developed world that regulates these fisheries and do so more and more each year.
thats why i don't see how "seafood" can be looked at as a single object of concern... since pacific salmon fisheries, the health of the stocks, historical averages etc has no connection to greenland halibut. to make the arguments they are making, you would have to look at everything, completely out of context.
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Their article actually also talks about things like pollution, not just overfishing. The CNN article is a pretty gross misrepresentation of what the actual article says. The focus on "seafood", I think, is merely a way to make the study more relevant to readers.