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Modern technology has given us the tools to extinguish entire fish populations, and because man is a can-do critter, that's what we're doing. After climbing steadily for the past 50 years, the worldwide catch of seafood has begun to drop. We're fishing out the oceans, at the same time that the need for seafood is soaring. Of the 6 billion of us on the planet, 1 billion rely on fish as their primary source of protein...
...know we have already wiped out--and by that I mean driven nearly to commercial extinction or, in a few cases, the brink of biological extinction--more than 100 popular species of food fish, including Nassau groupers, Chilean sea bass, orange roughy and cod. What we don't know, what we'll never know, is how many undiscovered species have been eradicated along the way. What creatures, great and small, might have contained genetic or chemical secrets that could have saved lives or improved them, conquered diseases or averted them...
Aquaculture--fish farming--has established beachheads from Maine to the tropics, from the South Pacific to the North Sea. Raising fish in enclosed pens is a complex and controversial process that can pose enormous environmental problems, but if done right, it holds great promise for feeding millions of people and providing vast numbers of jobs...
...Where fishing in the wild has been banned outright, fish stocks are starting to come back. Where "street-sweeper" trawls that devastate the seabed have been prohibited, nurseries and habitats are beginning to recover...
WASTE Sewage will be piped into enclosed marshes [12], where selected plants, fish, snails and microbes will purify the wastewater before it enters streams and reservoirs. No longer will inadequate treatment of wastewater promote algae blooms that threaten other aquatic life