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In the middle of the 19th century, millions of wild passenger pigeons were slaughtered each year in the United States to feed the appetites of city-dwellers. Once numbering in the billions with flocks that would blot out the sun, by the 1890s, the birds had virtually disappeared. The last survivor, Martha, perished in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914. |
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What does the tale of a long-extinct bird have to do with global fishing regulation? More than you might think. Much as the decline of once-abundant game animals such as passenger pigeons and bison paved the way for a crackdown on commercial hunting of wild game in the U.S., the growing depletion of fisheries in the world’s oceans has prompted a group of fisheries scientists to call for a revolution in how fishing is regulated. |
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