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"Fishing people are accustomed to the uncertainty of earning a livelihood from the sea. For generations they've seen catches ebb and flow [...]. But for the first time in human history fishing people around the globe now realise that wild fish stocks could actually disappear forever. A few short decades of industrial over-fishing are all it took to prove beyond any doubt that stocks could be fished to extinction. Industrial over-fishing has also laid bare the huge gaps in our knowledge about the marine environment. The scientific models and management methods that were supposed to guarantee sustainable harvesting continue to fail us one after the other [...]." (From the WFF World Fisheries Day pamphlet, 1998.)

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