National Public Radio Daniel Pauly, a professor at the Fisheries
Centre of the University of British Columbia, warns that the
global fishing industry has drastically depleted the number of
fish in the oceans. In an Oct. 7, 2009 article entitled
"Aquacalypse Now: The End of Fish," published by The New
Republic, Pauly writes that in the past 50 years "we have
reduced the populations of large commercial fish, such as
bluefin tuna, cod, and other favorites, by a staggering 90
percent." Pauly says that as the fish populations decline, boats
have begun to catch fish that weren't considered before —
sometimes renaming them to sound more appetizing. (Thus the
"Patagonian toothfish" becomes the "Chilean seabass.")