Fishing 17 Times Harder Than 1880s
5 May 2010
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The UK fishing fleet has to work 17 times harder today than it did in the 1880s to catch the same amount of fish.
Researchers from the University of York and the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) looked back through UK Government data to analyse the change in fish stocks since 1889. What they found was that fish landings peaked in 1937 and were 14 times higher than they are today.
The findings are published in the new online science journal from the publishers of Nature, Nature Communications. (more…)
Read the whole story on:http://planetsave.com
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