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Ransom Myers and Boris Worm, ”Rapid Worldwide Depletion of Predatory Fish Communities,” Nature, May 15, 2003.

439 The world reached ”peak fish” twenty-five years ago

Brad Plumer, ”The End of Fish, in One Chart,” Was.h.i.+ngton Post, May 20, 2012.

440 ”with 14% of a.s.sessed stocks collapsed in 2007”

Convention on Biological Diversity, ”Global Biodiversity Outlook 3: Biodiversity in 2010,” 2010,

441 large marine area in the Pacific Ocean

Suzanne Goldberg, ”Bush Designates Ocean Conservation Areas in Final Week as President,” Guardian, January 5, 2009.

442 61 percent of which will occur in China

OECD-FAO, ”Agricultural Outlook 20112020.”

443 can be tainted by pollution, antibiotics, and antifungals

Laurel Adams, Center for Public Integrity, ”FDA Screening of Fish Imports Not Catching Antibiotics and Drug Residue,” May 18, 2011, /genpage.php?tname=george&dbid=96.

444 five pounds of wild fish for each pound of farmed salmon produced

U.S. Department of Agriculture, ”Trout-Grain Project,” 2012.

445 Over half of the fish food in agriculture

NOAA Fisheries ServiceNational Marine Fisheries Service, ”Feeds for Aquaculture,” 2012.

446 Although more than 10 percent of all cropland

Elizabeth Weise, ”More of World's Crops Are Genetically Engineered,” USA Today, February 22, 2011.