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The fishing industry began sailing into its predicament during the 1970s, when increasingly sophisticated technology enabled fleets of all sizes and nationalities to venture farther from port than ever before. Sonar and radar helped locate the fish wherever they were hiding. Satellite-navigation systems let ships return over and over...
Worldwide, says the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, 13 of 17 major ocean fisheries are in trouble. The annual marine-fish catch, having peaked at 86 million metric tons in 1989, dipped to 82.5 million tons by 1992. That's why representatives of 100 nations are now assembled at...
So far, the fish deficit has had little impact on consumers. The prices of some scarce varieties, such as bluefin tuna, have jumped, but in other cases long-distance fleets have traveled to alternative fishing areas, often in the southern hemisphere. In addition, fish suppliers are selling more of species...
None of this is any consolation to the many traditional fishing communities that are suffering. The anguish runs deep in New England, for example, where fishermen are upset about new restrictions on the size of their catch. Earlier this month a procession of fishing boats staged a demonstration in Boston...
By the late 1980s, many kinds of fish were verging on "commercial extinction" -- they were still around, but not in great enough numbers to supply fishing boats. In some cases, countries have agreed on fishing bans until stocks recover. Last February, for example, six nations reached a tentative pact to...