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Rick Loomis The Los Angeles Times
"Altered Oceans"


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A red snapper, one of the top predatory fish on the reefs of Palmyra Atoll. Overfishing, with new technologies that arm industrial fleets with sonar, satellite data and global positioning systems, has declined the population of big fish by 90% over the last 50 years.
 

 

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