"Look," saidthe herring, "I've swum through the North Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, the IndianOcean, the JavaSea, the CoralSea, the Great Pacific Ocean, the Siberian Sea, and the frozenArctic."
"This is well illustrated by the rich harvests of fishermen after the Second World War and the rebuilding of NorthSeaherring stocks after the decline of the 1970s, " said Holm.
Faced with collapsing fish populations, whether the disappearance of the cod fishery on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland or the failure of the NorthSeaherring fisheries, the reaction has been one of half-hearted measures: too little done too late in a chain of endless procrastination excused by the need for ever more scientific research.