Ten or twenty years from now, if you believe the scientists, wild fish will be something that only the very rich will be able to eat. For the rest of us, the menu will feature reconstituted fish bites made from algae and jellyfish.
Or we'll exclusively eat the second-rate fish farmed in swamps and pens, already the source of half of the world's seafood.
How can it have come to this? But make no mistake, though some of the fishing industry disputes it, the scientists' figures are stark and convincing.
European fish stocks are calamitously over-fished and Britain's own stocks are 94 per cent lower than when industrialised fishing began in the late 19th century.
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