Fathoming the Scale of Extraction*
In their routine reports on global fisheries catches, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) normalises staggering levels of human predation.
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Fisheries
Marine Animal Extraction: 20th Century Intensification*
Human predation on marine beings increased exponentially from the industrialised 1900s. Myers and Worm estimate that the ‘biomass’ of large
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Historic Decline of Pre-industrial Fisheries: Northern Hemisphere
HMAP[1] researchers measured the number of marine animals taken from the ocean over centuries of fishing and whaling activity. In
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