I just finished reading “King Of Their Own Ocean’” by Karen Pinch. It's the history of bluefin tuna, a fish no one ever ate until it somehow became the most expensive seafood in the world. A tale of overfishing and fighting with conservationists. The author writes, “After spending years of my own life chasing bluefin around the world, I’ve ultimately come to believe that as a global community, we are collectively only a few terrible choices away from wiping out any ocean species. The bluefin’s astronomical value also makes fishermen especially vulnerable to greed. In the absence of meaningful public policies limiting catches, fishermen will simply catch more fish than our oceans can support, and species will collapse in an unpredictable trail of dominos.” It seems governments are cracking down and have been imposing limits on catch numbers and sizes. This has helped to stabilize things somewhat with the bluefin.
