Empty nets.How hungry is the world for fish? Famished fam·ish v. fam·ished, fam·ish·ing, fam·ish·es v.tr. 1. To cause to endure severe hunger. 2. To cause to starve to death. v.intr. 1. , it appears, as the rusty hulks of Chinese vessels--arrested for fishing illegally off Peru's teeming teem 1 v. teemed, teem·ing, teems v.intr. 1. To be full of things; abound or swarm: A drop of water teems with microorganisms. 2. coast in November--attest. Spain overbuilt o·ver·build v. o·ver·built , o·ver·build·ing, o·ver·builds v.tr. 1. To build over or on top of. 2. To construct more buildings in (an area) than necessary. 3. its fleet in the 1980s, and fish off of Chile like the Patagonian toothfish The Patagonian Toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) is a large fish found in the cold, temperate waters (from 50 to 3850 m depth) of the Southern Atlantic, Southern Pacific, Indian, and Southern Oceans on seamounts and continental shelves around most sub-Antarctic (marketed in the United Stales and Europe as sea bass and in Latin America as merluza or bacalao This article is about the possible island called Bacalao. For Portuguese dish, see Bacalhau. For Italian equivalent, see baccala. For salted and dried fish product on which these are based, see clipfish. ) have paid the price ever since. Now Chinese consumption has rocketed, up from 11% of the world's total in the early 1970s to more than a third by 1997, while developed countries have gobbled down fish so fast it drove fish-farming from a backyard hobby into a real business. Fish stocks are suffering, and no amount of aquaculture can seem to keep up with the gullets of global restaurant diners. Where there's a need, there's usually investment and a market answer. Clearly, however, captains and sailors are desperate enough still to take to the high seas in creaky fishing boats, all to make a buck on the back of an ever-shrinking supply. |
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