Further, IMO, the ocean is being starved. It used to be a lot more productive before we had sewerage treatment plants and nonpoint pollution control projects. Those nitrates and phosphates (that we banned) used to feed millions of tons of algae that supplied the entire marine food chain with primary nutrients. Obviously we shouldn't have been dumping raw sewerage into rivers, but the question is, what is the best thing we could have done? I don't think that question was asked and for certain we do not know the answers. Clearly coastal productivity in lagoons and estuaries is key and an obvious demonstration why UN plans such as the Wildlands Project are so terribly stupid.
I have proposed a new free-market environmental management system as an alternative. It is intrinsically capable of resolving such complexities, in part, because it its principles and design of checks and balances are so simple. It is now being reviewed at NMFS, Yale, Berkeley, and elsewhere.
Do you see aqua culture happening on the East Coast like out here in on the West Coast and in BC to help increase the fish populations in the Atlantic!