What makes all this so frustrating is that regulating the fishing industry is both cheap and easy. If commercial fishing were excluded from large areas of the sea, the total catch would be likely, paradoxically, to rise, due to what biologists call the spillover effect. Fish and shellfish breed and grow to large sizes in the reserves, then spill over into surrounding waters. Where seas have been protected in other parts of the world, catches have grown dramatically. As a paper in the journal PLOS Biology shows, even if fishing was banned across the entire high seas – as it should be – the world’s fish catch would rise, as the growing populations would migrate into national waters....
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... government
I have pledged to stop eating fish, in light of the current situation. Will report back in a year or two on how my osteoarthritis is doing after a decreased intake in the most absorbable forms of Omega-3 fatty acids. (plant-based om-3s, like flax and walnut oil have good amounts of om-3, but of a less absorbable form that is often degraded in transit, and during the refining process, due to their ease of oxidation) I was only eating one serving a week, so maybe not a big deal, but I'm also quitting products that have fish oil as a healthy additive, like some protein bars. (note: all results will be anecdotal, and scientifically worthless)
