Quote Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny
But really does anyone here believe that there will be no more fish in 40 years? Heck we know less about the oceans than we do of the moon.
Yes, I do believe we will devastate our oceans if we continue to abuse them in the way we currently are. Things are not going to fix themselves and there's no hidding from this, we need to take responsibility for the kind of world our children are going to inherit. I'd like them to live in a healthy one and hopefully a world in better condition than the state I found this one in.

Last time I was out on a reef in the South Pacific it was pretty grim. Don't think that was due to overfishing though, as the reef I was on had recently (5 years) suffered from massive bleaching due to increases in water temperature.
I've also seen plenty of evidence of this first hand. Coral reefs are rapidly disappearing due to increasing water temperature and poisoning. Although reefs occupy only one tenth of a percent of the ocean they contain more than 25% of the marine species and are a vital breeding ground for all kinds of animals. It certainly wouldn't surprise me if the loss of these habitats will also greatly contribute to the loss of wild fish as a commercially viable food source.