PLENTY more fish in the sea? It just isn’t so. The world’s fishing fleets are engaged in what looks increasingly like the final round-up of the planet’s last great stocks of wild creatures. And the picture emerging this week looks even bleaker. According to an analysis that focuses on how the oceans looked before the great fishing fleets put to sea, most fishing grounds lost up to 90 per cent of their stock in the first 15 years of exploitation, with the largest, predatory fish disappearing first (see “Old men of the sea have all but gone”).
Those giant…
