"'In some places in the world,'' he said, ''you can see people chasing the last fish. In the Java Sea in Indonesia, I have seen fishers going out in the morning, six of them going out and coming back with five pounds of fish. That is the end point, a pound of fish per person per day to sell for rice. That's where fisheries go if you let it happen. That's where it stabilizes. These people cannot feed their families.'' Unchecked, he says, the same will be seen around the world, and the fishing industry will leave little in the seas but harvests of what he calls ''bait and worse,'' the bottom levels of the marine food web like sea cucumbers, jellyfish and, eventually, plankton for future generations to eat." - Kamilah Gill from Bookmarklet

It's sad what's happening to fish. I think a lot of species won't be around in another decade or two. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

I'm very afraid of that, too. This scientist is on our side of this issue, I think. - Kamilah Gill