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It’s difficult to imagine the sea ever running out of fish.
It’s so vast, so deep, so {{U}} (36) {{/U}}. Unfortunately, it’s not
bottomless. Over fishing,{{U}} (37) {{/U}} with destructive fishing
practices, is killing off the fish and {{U}} (38) {{/U}} their
environment.
Destroy the fish, and you destroy the fishermen’s
means of living. At least 60 {{U}} (39) {{/U}} of the world’s
commercially important fish {{U}} (40) {{/U}} are already over-fished, or
fished to the limit. As a result, governments have had to close down some areas
of sea to {{U}} (41) {{/U}} fishing.
Big, high-tech
fleets {{U}} (42) {{/U}} that everything in their path is pulled out of
the water. Anything too small, or the wrong thing, is thrown back either dead or
dying. That’s an {{U}} (43) {{/U}} of more than 20 million metric tons
every year.
When you consider that equals a quarter of the world
catch, you begin to see the size of the problem