A brief history of overfishing
Far from being watery voids, the Earth's oceans are home to a rich and colourful variety of life. Yet today's waters are empty compared to the oceans of the past. The ocean's bounty didn't disappear overnight. While today's fishing industry is ruthlessly efficient, intense exploitation began not in the modern era, or even with the dawn of industrialisation, but in the eleventh century in medieval Europe.