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(NaturalNews) Every corner of the Earth's oceans has been impacted by commercial fishing, and many commercial fisheries are now in a state of collapse, warns Dr. Boris Worm, a prominent marine biologist and primary author of a peer-reviewed paper published in Science entitled, Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/conte...) (Science, November 2006: Vol. 314. no. 5800, pp. 787 - 790).

The plundering of the world's seafood populations is not sustainable, warns Dr. Worm in this exclusive interview with NaturalNews editor Mike Adams. The rapid depletion of important predator species like sharks -- combined with the loss of slow-growing marine mammals such as whales -- is causing a dangerous imbalance in the sustainability of ocean life.

From the commercial harvesting of krill to the cruel practice of "finning" sharks, humans are impacting marine ecosystems in a short-sighted and dangerous way, warns Dr. Worm.

The full interview (approx. 45 minutes) is available for downloading right now from NaturalNews: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Po... (Health Ranger Show #73).

Not all the news about commercial fishing of the world's oceans is bad news, however. Dr. Worm points to some important success stories of sustainable commercial fishing operations (including certain aquaculture farms), and he urges consumers to inform themselves about the origins of seafood so that they might make better decisions when buying seafood at the grocery store or ordering it at restaurants.

At the same time, Dr. Worm warns listeners that unless these success stories are embraced and applied across the board, much of the seafood humans now catch and consume could be virtually nonexistent by the year 2050.

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