{"id":2410,"date":"2003-05-15T00:18:16","date_gmt":"2003-05-15T07:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/05\/fish-stocks-falling\/"},"modified":"2003-05-15T00:18:16","modified_gmt":"2003-05-15T07:18:16","slug":"fish-stocks-falling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/15\/fish-stocks-falling\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish stocks falling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A57139-2003May14.html\">Study reveals plunge in big fish numbers<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fully 90 percent of each of the world&#8217;s large ocean species, including cod, halibut, tuna, swordfish and marlin, has disappeared from the world&#8217;s oceans in recent decades, according to the Canadian analysis &#8212; the first to use historical data dating to the beginning of large-scale fishing, in the 1950s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fish stocks are down, but fishing isn&#8217;t necessarily the culprit. There&#8217;s been a huge increase in the whale population since prohibitions on whaling took effect a  decade ago, and whales eat massive numbers of fish. Responsible whale harvesting will restore part of the fish population, and responsible fishing will keep it stable.<\/p>\n<p>In US waters, the trend is &#8220;steady, incremental improvement.&#8221;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study reveals plunge in big fish numbers Fully 90 percent of each of the world&#8217;s large ocean species, including cod, halibut, tuna, swordfish and marlin, has disappeared from the world&#8217;s oceans in recent decades, according to the Canadian analysis &#8212; the first to use historical data dating to the beginning of large-scale fishing, in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/15\/fish-stocks-falling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fish stocks falling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-CS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}