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Humanity's longest-running experiment in proving the ocean isn't actually infinite.
means An industry or managed area devoted to catching, raising, or harvesting fish and other aquatic life.
from Built straightforwardly from 'fish' plus the suffix '-ery,' the same ending that turns 'bake' into 'bakery' or 'brew' into 'brewery' — denoting a place, trade, or business of doing the thing. English just bolted it onto 'fish' centuries ago to name both the act of fishing and the waters or rights associated with it; no hidden story here, just sturdy Germanic-rooted word-carpentry doing its job.
- tragedy of commons
- textbook case: everyone's fish, so nobody's fish
- cod collapse
- canada's atlantic cod never recovered, 1992 to now
- quota math
- total allowable catch set yearly, routinely ignored anyway
- aquaculture surge
- farmed fish now outpaces wild catch worldwide