The Seattle Times has a good article about the recent collapse of halibut in the Gulf of Alaska.
During his career, the fishing has become a lot tougher, and, last year, a fall fishing trip in the Bering Sea was an outright disaster. A once prime area was largely barren of fish. In the few spots where he still encountered halibut, hungry killer whales stripped away most of the catch before he could bring them onto the boat…Halibut now appear to be at, or near, their lowest point of the past century.
If you have noticed that halibut has vanished from local restaurants or the price for halibut has skyrocketed in your local fish mart, this is the reason.
The reasons are not clearly understood but have many possible causes.
Read it and weep.
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