Yet all the time, the explanation of why fisheries would collapse was in the public domain.

You get used to it: another species extinct, another fishery collapsed or whatever.

Elsewhere, major fisheries, such the northern hemisphere cod fisheries, were collapsing.

There are fears the fishery may collapse due to overfishing.

Looking globally, fisheries around the planet are collapsing.

There's a lot less rainforest, much less Arctic sea ice in the summer, major oceanic fisheries have collapsed.

As the lake dried up, fisheries and the communities that depended on them collapsed.

Former industrial fisheries, which boomed in the 1980s, have subsequently collapsed.

Where's the proof that the fishery is collapsing?

In reality, by 1883 marine fisheries were already collapsing.