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Number of fish in the sea has dropped by nearly half since 1970,report says
LONDON — The number of fish and other species in the sea has
been almost halved since 1970, according to a new report from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). Numbers dropped some 49% between 1970 and 2012, the report says, with global population sizes of the Scombridae family of food fish that includes tunas, mackerel and bonitos falling by 74%. The study, which hasn't been peer reviewed, tracked 5,829 populations of 1,234 species, which its authors say makes up a data set almost twice as large as previous studies. They identify overfishing as the main threat to ocean biodiversity, but also conclude that climate change is causing the ocean to change faster than it has for millions of years. An increase in temperatures and increased acidity levels caused by carbon dioxide are compounding problems brought about from overfishing and pollution, they say. http://mashable.com/2015/09/16/marin...-halved-since- 1970/#i6yncNrmjOkT |
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