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Photo Gallery Vanishing Fish

The oceans are a primary source of food for mankind. Fishing provides 200 million people with income, too -- meager as it may be. But growing demand and the industrial-scale exploitation of the seas are destroying global fish populations.
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A floating tank of bluefin tuna is towed from fishing grounds off Libya to tuna farms off Sicily.

Foto: AFP
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Globalization: A Japanese fisherman loads tuna caught at a farm near the mid-Adriatic Croatian town of Zadar.

Foto: AFP
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The worldwide popularity of sushi has decimated tuna populations.

Foto: REUTERS
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Greenpeace activists against dragnet fishing.

Foto: AFP
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Overfishing by the numbers.

Foto: DER SPIEGEL
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