There is evidence that the forage fish, like all natural resources, are cyclic. The crash, they recover. Well, they used to recover when we didn't fish the **ck out of them.

Too many people "rely" on fish to eat or fish protein to grow their net pen fish, chicken, turkeys, make fish oil pills for their joints.

On the point of fish "looking like bait", different cultures eat different things. Look at the prices a commercial salmon goes for. Silver bright skin means big bucks. Even a little watermarking (color) and that same fish's price declines. The flesh is the same, has the same nutrition. It is the optics.