This is largely the result of overfishing and the depletion of the fish stocks.this is done for nothing less than mans greed.I wonder what these fishermen will do when the fish levels fall to such an extent that fishing becomes no longer profitable.

I agree. And more important, why nobody is talking about bluefin tuna farming at Port Lincoln, just a few miles from Phillip Island? There is a heavy proved link between tuna farming that requires huge amounts of smaller fish species to fatten tuna and starving marine mammals (as it occurs in Mediterranean). Port Lincoln in South Australia is a nerve centre of bluefin tuna farming to sell to Japan. These destructive growing operations are depleting small species to fatten tuna worldwide.

There is a wrong widespread excuse for starvation around the planet. The most common is El Niño. We are fed to listening about El Niño. Of course this event has tremendous effects but frequently is used as a global excuse when marine mammals or other creatures die of starvation: 'sea lions in CA are dying of starvation because of El Niño', 'penguins are dying of starvation because of El Niño'… But if you get a look closer it's exactly the same pattern. The striped dolphins in Mediterranean Sea are dying because they don't manage to find anchovies or sardines or mackarel to eat. Destructive purse-seiners vessels are stealing colosal amounts of small fish to fatten the decimated wild bluefin tuna retained in cages that will be later sold to Japan.

The facts are clear. Marine wildlife is dying of starvation because we humans are looting their food for fish farming.

If media is always pointing out El Niño as the only reason, maybe someday people are going to believe that stupid argument.