Why We Sucked At Counting Fish (Until Now)

Опубликовано 6 мая 2016, 14:52

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A new fish counting method has revealed there are ten times more fish in the sea than we previously thought.*
*But unfortunately, this doesn't mean we're not overfishing.

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