Official action a last gasp chance for fish: scientists

“Across all regions, we are still seeing a troubling trend of increasing stock collapse,” said Boris Worm of Canada's Dalhousie University, lead author of the study published in the journal Science in July.

“But this paper shows that our oceans are not a lost cause.”

Worm, a co-author of a pessimistic report in 2006 predicting that overfishing could lead to a total collapse of global seafood stocks by 2048, said the latest study had given him new hope.

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