Two converging trends seem poised to shake things up a bit in the smallanimal department, as one of those trends gives the other some serious traction.
More fisheries are relying on smaller prey fish such as anchoveta - with more than 10.7 million metric tons pulled in, depriving seabirds and other marine animals of food (FAO «Ten Biggest Fisheries in the World» 2006) It seems that humanity's