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Published online 2 November 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news061030-10

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Sayonara, sushi...

Time could be running out for seafood.

What's your favourite seafood dish? Seared scallops? Salmon sashimi? Grilled shrimp?

Enjoy it while you can, because by 2048 it could all be gone. A recent survey of global fisheries data says that seafood stocks around the world will collapse within 50 years — if we don't change the way we treat the world's oceans1.

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