Only 10 percent of big ocean fish remain

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

Only 10 percent of big ocean fish remain, according to a recent study published in Nature:

A new global study concludes that 90 percent of all large fishes have disappeared from the world’s oceans in the past half century, the devastating result of industrial fishing.

What the article does not mention is that overfishing is a well-understood example of the tragedy of the commons.

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