TOPIC: Scientists predict the collapse of fisheries worldwide unless over-fishing and other current trends change drastically.

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Sources for this program

• BBC News, 11/2/2006, Richard Black, “Only 50 years left” for sea fish; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6108414.stm
• Washington Post, 11/3/2006, Juliet Eilperin, World’s Fish Supply Running Out, Researchers Warn; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/02/AR2006110200913.html
• National Geographic News, May 15, 2003, Big-fish Stocks Fall 90 Percent Since 1950, Study Says; http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/0515_030515_fishdecline.html
•  Mongabay.com, August 18, 2008, Jeremy Hance, The long-ignored ocean emergency and what can be done to address it; http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0818-hance_oceans.html
•   United nations Environment Programme, May 17, 2010, Turning the Tide on Falling Fish Stocks–UNEP-Led Green Economy Charts Sustainable Investment Path;  http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=624&ArticleID=6566&l=en
•  World Resources Institute, November 8, 2006, Janet Ranganathan, Biodiversity Loss May Lead fo Global Fisheries Collapse;  http://www.wri.org/stories/2006/11/biodiversity-loss-may-lead-global-fisheries-collapse
•  Science Magazine, May 4, 2010, Gretchen Vogel, British Trawlers Working Nearly 20 Times as Hard to Catch Fish; http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/05/british-trawlers-working-nearly-.html
• Mongabay.com, July 18, 2007, Foreign fishing fleets deplete African fish stocks; http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0717-wsj.html

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