As capitalism developed and spread, intensive extraction by industrial
capture fisheries became the norm. Increased demands were placed on the
oceans and overfishing resulted in the severe depletion of wild fish
stocks. In /Empty Ocean/, Richard Ellis states, “Throughout the world’s
oceans, food fishes once believed to be immeasurable in number are now
recognized as greatly depleted and in some cases almost extinct. A
million vessels now fish the world’s oceans, twice as many as there were
twenty-five years ago. Are there twice as many fish as before? Hardly”.
How did this situation develop?

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