Britain's fish stocks have fallen by 94 per cent since their peak levels in 1937, a study revealed today.
Experts found that the decline of popular species such as such as cod, haddock and plaice has been far greater than previously thought.
The 'extraordinary' decline in fish stocks in our waters over the past 120 years has been masked by technological developments in trawling boats. Read more
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Britain's fish stocks have fallen by 94 per cent since their peak levels in 1937, a study revealed today.
2 comments:
This destruction of the fishing industry and fishing grounds is done deliberately.
Labour and the Tories ignored this since we were conned into Europe. Time we had some serious fish farms to rebuild stocks.
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