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comments: firstname.lastname@example.org A deadly combination of
climate change, over-fishing and pollution could cause the
collapse of commercial fish stocks worldwide within decades,
said Achim Steiner, head of the United Nations Environment
Programme. "You overlap all of this and you see you're
potentially putting a death nail in the coffin of world
fisheries," Steiner told reporters on Friday on the fringes of a
climate conference involving more than 150 nations and 100
environment ministers. Some 2.6 billion people worldwide depend
on fish for protein, said a UNEP report "In Dead Water"
published on Friday. Climate change has compounded previous
problems such as over-fishing, as rising temperatures kill coral
reefs, threaten tuna spawning grounds, and shift ocean currents
and with them the plankton and small fish which underpin ocean
food chains. "The question is not whether we should stop fishing
but to address climate change, which is creating a