A century ago, meat markets in American cities regularly offered buffaloes, cranes, and other wildlife. Today marine creatures are the last wildlife commercially hunted on a large scale. It's worth pondering the ripple effect that consumption of seafood creates in the ocean. And the next time you have a hankering for fish, try selecting your meal from a properly managed fishery. You can subscribe on-line.
Sharks mature late in life, grow slowly, and produce few offspring.
As a result, their populations require decades to recover from intensive fishing. Many populations are declining. Most species on the East Coast are overfished and depleted. Poor in the Pacific Ocean. Management is fair to good in U.S. Atlantic waters.