OCEAN fishermen are constantly on the lookout for new places to ply their trade, as they exhaust the old ones. Thus, in the 1970s, Europe's trawlermen turned to the deep seabed of the north-east Atlantic to replace the shallow continental-shelf fisheries closer to home that they had stripped near-bare. But those replacement grounds, too, are not what they were. A study published in 2009 suggested that in all but the deepest of their waters--those with a seabed closer than 1,500 metres to the sur...
OCEAN fishermen are constantly on the lookout for new places to ply their trade, as they exhaust the old ones. Thus, in the 1970s, Europe's trawlermen turned to the deep seabed of the north-east Atlantic to replace the shallow continental-shelf fisheries closer to home that they had stripped near-bare. But those replacement grounds, too, are not what they were. A study published in 2009 suggested that in all but the deepest of their waters--those with a seabed closer than 1,500 metres to the sur...
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