Without sound conservation and management measures fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.
Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism which we don't want to admit the loss of the empire of the United States and American exceptionalism. In fact American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories from education to infrastructure.