'Middle Class' Coral Reef Fish Feel The Economic Squeeze
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 09:43
in Earth & Climate
The economy isn't just squeezing the middle class on land, it's also affecting fish. Overfishing on coral reefs isn't simply caused by too many people. Rather, researchers found that the biomass of fish found on coral reefs in the western Indian Ocean depended mostly on the complexity of the reefs themselves and the socioeconomic status of the people living on the shores.