The global race to catch the last fish left in the oceans has been successfully halted in a few regions and fish stocks have rebounded, a new landmark study has found.
However, since 80 percent of global fisheries are already fully or overexploited, similar actions to reduce fishing pressure and improve management are urgently needed if the seas are to have commercial quantities of fish left by 2050.
"Across all regions we are still seeing a troubling trend of increasing [fish] stock collapse," said Boris Worm of Canada’s Dalhousie University, one of the world’s leading fisheries experts.