Two years after a study warned that overfishing could cause a collapse in the world’s seafood stocks by 2048, an update says the tide is turning, at least in some areas.
“This paper shows that our oceans are not a lost cause,’’ said Boris Worm of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, lead author of both reports. “I’m somewhat more hopeful . . . than what we were seeing two years ago.’’
Ray Hilborn of the University of Washington challenged Worm’s original report, leading the two to launch the study that led to the new findings. They are being published in today’s edition of the journal Science.