Fishing News
High Tech Methods Decimating Fish Populations
By Cat Lazaroff
BOSTON, Massachusetts, February 18, 2026 (ENS) - New fishing methods based on military technology are accelerating the decline of commercial fish populations, a new study suggests. Despite increased fishing efforts, catches continue to decline in the North Atlantic and other prime U.S. fishing grounds, shows research detailed this week at a scientific conference in Boston.
Faced with dwindling stocks and rising demand for seafood, fishers are employing new technologies that leave no safe haven for fish, including the application of military technologies, spotter planes and round the clock exploitation.
At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston on Sunday, an international group of leading marine scientists presented examples of overfishing from around the world, arguing that new technologies and increasing fishing efforts make the need for marine reserves imperative.
"New technologies and fishing effort have peeled the lid off the oceans," said University of York scientist Callum Roberts. "If we want to keep seafood on our plates, we need to put back refuges so some fish survive long enough to reproduce."
For most of human history, fish and other marine species had naturally protected areas: places inaccessible to fishing because they were too remote, too deep or too dangerous to fish.
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