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Environment & Energy

hunter

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3. One more reason to oppose most commercial fishing.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sat Sep 2, 2017, 10:15 PM

Sep 2017

The human population is so much greater now, and fishing technology so advanced, we could easily cause the extinction of once common species. (If ocean acidification and radically changing ocean currents don't get them first...)

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Rerun: Died, September 1, 1914; Martha, the last passenger pigeon [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2017 OP

Bring them back exboyfil Sep 2017 #1

We're next! Canoe52 Sep 2017 #2

One more reason to oppose most commercial fishing. hunter Sep 2017 #3