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Overfishing doesn’t just shrink fish populations—they often don’t recover afterwards
Thanks to surging demand for seafood and woefully inaccurate catch reporting, overfishing is out of control. And new research now argues (paywall) that it’s a problem that, in many ecosystems, might be permanent. By removing one of its species, overfishing “flips” an ecosystem into an “alternative state”. It set’s off a complex reshuffling among remaining species. Often, this “locks” the ecosystem into a “alternative stable state”—meaning, the species of fish can’t come back.
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This practice needs to stop. It's pathetic seeing all these animals becoming endangered and even extinct because of one stupid species, us.
This is how humanity ends... by polution and overconsumption.
Greed.
Sad :(