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...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 to prime spots. Newly built "factory ships" deployed nets so huge that they could swallow 12 jumbo jets in a single gulp. Led by the U.S., many countries made waters up to 200 miles from their shores off limits to foreign boats. But as soon as intruding vessels drew farther...
That may be easier than ensuring an adequate supply of fish, which provides one-sixth of humanity's animal protein. As the population surges, so will demand. Trying to buy time by switching to alternative species or different parts of the world, says Michael Sutton of the World Wildlife Fund, "is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic." And aquiculture is not a guaranteed solution: fish raised in crowded conditions on farms are vulnerable to disease and genetic defects from inbreeding...
...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 restrict pollack fishing in an area known as the "doughnut hole," in the international waters of the Bering...
Trying to forge a global treaty will be especially daunting. Countries with desirable fish off their coasts, including Canada, New Zealand, Argentina and Iceland, point fingers at so-called distant nations, such as Japan, Poland, Taiwan and the European Union countries, for taking too many fish just outside the 200-mile limit. The distant nations, in turn, blame coastal states for poor management inside the boundaries...