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Campaigners, with the support of marine scientists, have repeatedly tried to persuade countries to agree to an international ban, arguing that the indiscriminate nature of bottom-trawling is causing irreversible damage to coral reefs and slow-growing fish species, which can take decades to reach maturity and are therefore slow to replenish their numbers.
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Such troubles are unlikely to sap growing global demand for fish and other aquaculture products.
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Fish farms are growing in some countries.
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At the Touro College School of Health Sciences in New York, Morris Benjaminson and his team are working on removing living tissue from fish, and then growing it in culture.
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For now, at any rate, the problem stems more from the growing number of fishermen than from falling numbers of fish.
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Mr. Rackley and his teammate, Mr. Knight, hung out in the marina, nabbing fish that were noshing on the algae growing on the wood pilings.
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In addition, there is growing circumstantial evidence for hybrid speciation in Ragoletis fruit flies, swordtail fish and African cichlid fish.
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Fish farming's supporters argue that it could meet the growing shortfall as wild fisheries become more and more exhausted.
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Two establishments stood nearby: a redbrick pub with pretty clumps of lavender growing in the window pots and, on the other side of the green, a luridly painted fish-and-chip van.
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While fish are very efficient machines (unlike chickens and cows, they don't use metabolic energy by growing strong bones to fight gravity), they still eat a lot.
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