We caught em and ate em.

The paper, published in the journal Science, concludes that overfishing, pollution and other environmental factors are wiping out important species around the globe, hampering the ocean's ability to produce seafood, filter nutrients and resist the spread of disease

An international group of ecologists and economists warned yesterday that the world will run out of seafood by 2048 if steep declines in marine species continue at current rates, based on a four-year study of catch data and the effects of fisheries collapses.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/02/AR2006110200913.html


Worldwide 110 million tonnes seafood caught and aquaculture in 2006.
ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/011/i0250e/i0250e01.pdf

Over fishing
http://www.wri.org/publication/content/8385

More than one-half of the marine fish catch in the United States is taken in the Northeast Pacific and in Alaskan coastal waters.
http://www.dreamessays.com/customessays/World%20History/7430.htm


U.S. Landings in the 50 United States )(2):
8.3 billion pounds down 11% Valued at $4.4 billion - up 5%

http://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/st1/fus/fus08/highlight2008.pdf