European boats unfairly fishing in African waters have depleted local resources. Many African fishermen now have no fish and no hope, except in the prospects of a better life in Europe. The New York Times has more in a great article yesterday: Europe Takes Africa's Fish, and Boatloads of Migrants Follow.
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Puffer fish are notorious. Considerable delicacy in Japan (a taste adopted by some non-Japanese Foodies), they come with a side of risk: some puffer fish have the potent lethal toxins tetrodotoxin and/or saxitoxin, neurotoxins more than 1000 times the lethal potency of cyanide:
A not at all exhaustive collection of cool bizarro aquariums.
I'm a big fish eater. In general, given a choice about what to eat, I'm
usually happiest when I get to eat a nice fish. Even now that I've started eating
beef again, most of the time, I'd rather eat a nice piece of wild salmon
than pretty much anything made of beef.
A fascinating new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the impact of human fishing may be reducing the fitness of fish populations overall.
Another NY Times article:
Europe?s Appetite for Seafood Propels Illegal Trade
LONDON - Walking at the Brixton market among the parrotfish, doctorfish and butterfish, Effa Edusie is surrounded by pieces of her childhood in Ghana. Caught the day before far off the coast of West Africa, they have been airfreighted to London for dinner.