Hope to do some of the recreational variety next week, if I can find oil-free waters. This is about the commercial variety, though. New research appearning in Nature Communications and summarized at Science Daily indicates that the decline of oceanic fish stocks may be even more severe than we thought. So much so, in fact, that today's British trawl-fishing fleet must expend 17 times the effort to catch the same tonnage of fish than the sail-powered fleet of the 1880s. The greatest decline has been in halibut, although haddock, plaice, cod, and other have also shown dramatic falls.
Just in time for the download of my new IPod companion. I'll be "reading" Callum Roberts' The Unnatural History of the Sea, which deals with our long history of overuse of marine resources. So, expect updates.
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