Are There Plenty of Fish in the Sea? Ask an Elephant Seal.

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Are There Plenty of Fish in the Sea? Ask an Elephant Seal.

This story was originally published in bioGraphic and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The deep sea contains many things: shipwrecks laden with gold, submersibles stuffed with sightseeing billionaires, and an absolutely unfathomable number of fish. If you could somehow put all the world’s fish in a giant pile—all the tuna; all the herring; all the mackerel, sardines, and anglerfish—around 90 percent, by weight, would have …