Fish stocks may be wiped out within 50 years

An international team of scientists has warned that fish stocks may be wiped out within 50 years if present levels of overfishing continues.

Writing in the American journal, Science, the researchers say they have carried out the most comprehensive analysis yet of the human impact on declining marine life.

They have also warned of serious knock-on consequences for water quality and shoreline environments.
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They have called for steps to be taken to safeguard stocks by protecting some sea areas.

The group say that stocks have collapsed in almost one third of the world's fisheries and the rate of decline is accelerating.

The head of the study Canadian Professor, Boris Worm, said despite the gloomy prediction it is not too late to reverse the trend.

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Andy

so they say ,
listening to the radio this morning a guy called dick james the fisheries minster what he said.

Mind be sooner around our shores with the amount of fish the Eastern Europeans and Chinese bag.

the only saving grace here is that there are so many small little coves and nurserey areas that are so remote and dont get touched - these stock the rest - if these get plundered then there is definite trouble

Going to do my bit for the planet this wekend, so I'm not fish de wall.