tcreeley
Elite Member
I remember reading years ago that due to the large amount of fish netted, the larger ones were being removed from the gene pool while the smaller ones became the majority of the gene pool. The small ones would manage to slip through the net openings while the larger ones couldn't. Because of this, the offspring were also shrinking in size.
I also recall that it was claimed that due to over fishing the world's fish stocks would be in danger of collapsing around 2050.
Sounds like the people doing this study (Oxygen-starved fish......) took old studies and simply inserted their own reason, AGW, for the causes.
If there were no GW, the fish would still shrink in size and would still be depleted unless remedial actions were take.
Maine has a lobster fishery. But its ground fisheries collapsed 20-25 years ago.
Here is a good link with overfishing info.
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/statusoffisheries/2012/second/MapOverfishedStocksCY_Q2_2012.pdf
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