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The species left are more tolerant of unfavourable conditions, omnivorous scavengers, thats all.A bit like magpies and other corvids on land, they survive by not being specialists, they eat anything and everything and in doing so they reduce more delicate species like songbirds who rely on specific seeds or insects.Even if all commercial fishing ceased I don't believe the old stocks of fish would return simply because the conditions aren't there. In a few years I reckon the water around the UK will be like the Med, just warm water species. No cod, no herring, no mackerel, no pollack. We will see the warmer water species though, we're even seeing bass caught inshore throughout the year, who would have thought that 40 years ago?
The species left are more tolerant of unfavourable conditions, omnivorous scavengers, thats all.
A bit like magpies and other corvids on land, they survive by not being specialists, they eat anything and everything and in doing so they reduce more delicate species like songbirds who rely on specific seeds or insects.
Even if all commercial fishing ceased I don't believe the old stocks of fish would return simply because the conditions aren't there. In a few years I reckon the water around the UK will be like the Med, just warm water species. No cod, no herring, no mackerel, no pollack. We will see the warmer water species though, we're even seeing bass caught inshore throughout the year, who would have thought that 40 years ago?
