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Our enormous fish catches have skewed ocean chemistry

Industrial fishing seems to have altered the processing of biomass in the ocean.
Aerial view of fishing boats setting sail in China.

Industrial-scale fishing since the late nineteenth century has sharply reduced the biomass processed by ocean-going fish. Credit: Shen Lei/VCG/Getty

Industrial fishing might have disrupted some of the chemical flows in the ocean as much as human-induced climate change has1.

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Nature 598, 388 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02801-2

References

  1. Bianchi, D., Carozza, D. A., Galbraith, E. D., Guiet, J. & DeVries, T. Sci. Adv. 7, eabd7554 (2021).

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