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Once teeming with life, the oceans have turned into a slaughterhouse. Fish and smaller ocean life are overexploited to an irresponsible degree. Three quarters of the stocks are more or less overfished. Politicians shun the necessary drastic measures. Green groups try to convince consumers to eat ‘sustainably caught’ fish only. But even they suffer from (partly deliberate) tunnel vision. For instance, in their reluctance to estrange fishing communities, most established European environmentalist groups have
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