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FISH STORY: THE WORLD HAS RUN OUT OF NEW FISHING AREAS.

Most endangered species owe their precarious existence to the destruction of their habitat by the spread of a single invasive species, Homo sapiens, which now numbers about 7.0 billion. Aided by technology, Homo sapiens thrives in almost any habitat, and has spread to almost every region of Earth, including the surface of the ocean which has been a particularly rich source of protein. A story in today's Washington Post by Juliet Eilperin, however, say the globe has run out of new fishing areas and that current fishing methods are not sustainable. We have destroyed the great cod fisheries This is why farmed fish now account for about half of the world's seafood production. An article in today's Science says the FDA is now considering approval of a genetically modified Atlantic salmon that contains an inserted growth gene from Pacific Chinook salmon.

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