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On a recent deep-sea fishing trip--my first--off the coast of southern California, the yellowfin tuna were nowhere in sight. We were surrounded instead by scores of other boats, all equally idle, and the only fish I saw all day were the silvery small fry used for bait, swimming in tight circles in their holding tank.
That same week, as it happened, the journal Nature published a startling report on the rapid decline of large ocean species all over the...
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