Climate, pollution and overfishing

2015-01-15T13:44:00

While marine pollution can be obvious, it is often the pollutants that cannot be seen that cause the most harm. Credit: Stephen Codrington/CC BY 2.5

It seems that at least every five years I have to return to the dispute of overfishing versus other factors responsible for depleted fish populations. I wrote about it on this page in 2002, 2007 and 2012. Now, with a feeling of déjà vu, I''m back at it.

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