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Posted Thu Oct 29 2009: from Agence France-Presse:
Hong Kong's ghostly seas warn of looming global tragedy http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1256831978
 ...Having overfished and polluted its own waters to the point where they are home mainly to great ghosts of the past, Hong Kong now imports up to 90 percent of its seafood. The problem with that, scientists say, is that Hong Kong is a microcosm of a marine disaster in which wild fish are being eaten out of existence worldwide... "Unless the current situation improves, stocks of all species currently fished for food are predicted to collapse by 2048," the WWF reports, quoting a controversial scientific survey.
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'Doc Michael says:
2048? Could you please be more specific?

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