In the current issue of Science twenty-one leading ocean scientists declared a truce--it's as if Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner agreed to stop the chase for a day. The paper was authored by many of the biggest names on all sides of the debate on ending overfishing--Boris Worm, Ray Hilborn, Andy Rosenberg and Chris Costello. So what are the terms? First, they agree on what I will call a "Goldilocks" catch level (You know--not too hot, not too cold, but just right.) If we fish too much, then fish get smaller, catch levels eventually go down and lots of species …
