“They’re not there. We ate them.”

The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Major fish populations largely gone, study finds

Fully 90 percent of each of the world’s large ocean species, including cod, halibut, tuna, swordfish and marlin, have disappeared in recent decades, according to the Canadian analysis — the first to use historical data dating to the beginnings of large-scale fishing in the 1950s.
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A group of top tuna scientists, he said, would be scrutinizing the study and would issue a formal rebuttal later.

So they’ll rebut the study, not matter what it came out the same day they’re claiming it’s wrong.