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The overexploitation of marine resources is a major global environmental problem, overlooked by much of the public. While some threatened living marine resources, such as whales, have garnered a great deal of public attention, depletion of once abundant fishery resources is virtually unknown outside of a rather small community of scientists, policymakers, public interest advocates, and those participating...
The collapse of human societies has commonly involved unsustainable overexploitation of resources and rapid population growth, followed by an environmental catastrophe, such as a prolonged drought, that destroyed the remaining resources. Collapse was sometimes averted by expansion into new territories to tap unexploited resources, which served as spatial subsidies that fueled further population growth...
No one needed to “manage” fish when people were few and fishing pressures were low. Indeed, as Andy Rosenberg is fond of pointing out, the concept of managing fish is fundamentally absurd. Fish can’t read the regulations and they don’t go to management meetings, people do. So we must manage people in order to restore the fish, fisheries, and ecosystems that we value.
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