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Article: Ups and downs; Fishing (I).(Good and bad news from the blue frontier)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- January 7, 2006
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Protected marine areas might solve a crisis in deep-sea fisheries
THIS week sees more bad news from the Atlantic's overfished waters. It has been known for some time that deep-sea fish around the world are facing difficulties at least as severe as those experienced by their more abundant shallow-water brethren. But a paper published in this week's Nature shows that some species are in so much trouble that they may be on the brink of extinction.
Jennifer Devine and her colleagues at Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada, studied catch data on five deep-sea species. Two of them, the roundnose grenadier and the ...