Some species have collapsed, like Atlantic cod, Atlantic bluefin tuna and Pacific salmon in California, Oregon and Washington.

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The report cites a case in which 600 people in Hong Kong became severely ill after eating what they thought was Atlantic cod.

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Last year, the company stopped selling seven other species on the Greenpeace red list including Atlantic cod, Chilean sea bass and orange roughy, says Jeff Lyons, Costco's senior vice president of fresh foods.

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For example, some studies have reported that Atlantic herring, cod and blue-fin tuna flee sounds and school less coherently in noisy environments.

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Then the white barrels, the wooded hills on the far bank of the river, and beyond the hills the other side of Connecticut, the trip to the whaling ship at Mystic Seaport, somewhere out there Cape Cod, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa.

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