[nemo44x]

Many fish were much larger in the not so distant past. Marlin in Caribbean used to be huge compared to todays catch. Pictures from the 1950's and earlier, you see some just massive Marlin. They're big today but nothing like how they used to be. But we have a whole lot more people on the Earth today.

[nickfromseattle]

Here is an article that highlights this change. Just scroll the pictures, don't need to read the words.

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/02/05/257046530/b...

[wahern]

> "We are eating bait and moving on to jellyfish and plankton", [University of British Columbia fisheries scientist] Pauly said.

http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jul/30/local/la-me-ocean30j... (https://web.archive.org/web/20161010003945/http://articles.l...), p3

[disqard]

Thank you for sharing those, esp. the one about Lyngbya majuscula blooms.