Originally Posted by cmac2012

No one claimed there are no fish in the sea. But I don't think this fellow's experience is meaningless. Large scale, wholesale fish extraction continues apace. Bottom trawling still goes on. Hard to see things getting better before they get worse.

Wholesale extraction of sharks is is almost certainly leading to an increase in seals and sea lions which will eat more fish that sharks ever dreamed of eating. Overfishing and warming seas have led to a rise in jellyfish which imperil commercially attractive fish species. Overfishing is leading to an explosion of Humboldt squid populations which can lead to further decline in desirable species. It's a vicious circle. We big brained humans are too effective for our own good. Not sure what the answers are but pretending there is no problem is not one of them.