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Scientists warn of fish stocks collapse

By Fiona Harvey in London

Published: November 3 2006 02:00 | Last updated: November 3 2006 02:00

There will be no more commercial fishing in 40 years if the present levels of fishing continue around the world, leading marine scientists are warning on Friday.

A new analysis of world fisheries, which took four years to compile, concludes that by 2048 stocks of all of the species currently fished for food will collapse to less than 10 per cent of the maximum catches recorded.

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