The chart for
marine catch shows something even scarier: In 1996, the catch peaked at 130 million tonnes and in spite of massively increased industrial fishing, it's been declining ever since — a harbinger of the kind of overshoot that unsustainable exploitation threatens across the board.
The research, published in Endangered Species Research, sheds light on the true threat of plastic pollution to
marine turtles, which, other research has
shown, also eat plastic rubbish, and
marine creatures
caught up in it.