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Letter: Net carbon by banning fishing globally

Published 23 April 2025

From John Kitchen, Kettering, Northamptonshire, UK

If researcher Oswald Schmitz is correct about fish storing such large amounts of carbon, then we need to stop commercial fishing immediately. We know that world stocks of larger species have dipped to of what they were before industrial fishing took over. We could tackle the problem of excessive carbon dioxide in the atmosphere simply by banning commercial fishing (29 March, p 39).

Issue no. 3540 published 26 April 2025

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