| All of the world's fishing stocks will collapse before midcentury, devastating food supplies, if overfishing and other human impacts continue at their current pace, according to a global study published today by scientists in five countries.
Already, nearly one-third of species that are fished—including bluefin tuna, Atlantic cod, Alaskan king crab, Pacific salmon and an array in California fisheries—have collapsed, and the pace is accelerating, the report says.
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