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Correspondence
Nature 439, 660 (9 February 2006) | doi:10.1038/439660c; Published online 8 February 2006
Dwindling fish numbers already of concern in 1883
David W. Sims1 & Alan J. Southward1
- Marine Biological Association of the UK, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth PL1 2PB, UK
Jennifer Devine and colleagues in their Brief Communication "Deep-sea fishes qualify as endangered" (Nature 439, 29; 2006) state: "At one time it was presumed from the vastness of the oceans that fishing would not drive species to extinction." Indeed, the UK Royal Commission on the Sea Fisheries in 1866, whose officers included Thomas Henry Huxley, reported that fears of over-exploitation were unfounded.
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