||| FROM THE SEATTLE TIMES |||
The fishing has become a lot tougher, and, last year, a fall fishing trip in the Bering Sea was an outright disaster.
Halibut now appear to be at, or near, their lowest point of the past century.
In 1973, an average 16-year-old halibut weighed 73 pounds. In recent years, an average fish the same age dropped to just less than 26 pounds
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One can tell how deep our environmental problems are when what should be shocking has become merely the mundane.