Quietly and without fuss, the powerful Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) made a change to the description of sustainable fisheries recently.
Many a beautiful theory has been killed by an ugly fact, so the saying goes, and a demonstration of that was witnessed this week when the work of one scientist was eviscerated by another.
Fisheries have an increasingly important role to play in feeding the world’s rapidly burgeoning population, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).