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Sadly that is how fishing works. Wild Salmon is endangered in many locations including the US [1] and UK [2], for example. It does also occur that popluations
by alecthomas 3y ago
Sadly that is how fishing works. Wild Salmon is endangered in many locations including the US [1] and UK [2], for example.
It does also occur that popluations become so low that they can't recover. Atlantic Northwest Cod are the most obvious example, still not having recovered from overfishing in the latter half of last century [3].
[1] https://time.com/6199237/is-farmed-salmon-healthy-sustainable/ https://time.com/6199237/is-farmed-salmon-healthy-sustainabl...
[2] https://wildfish.org/latest-news/main-uk-populations-of-atlantic-salmon-move-to-endangered/ https://wildfish.org/latest-news/main-uk-populations-of-atla...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_the_Atlantic_northwest_cod_fishery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_the_Atlantic_north...