Not that long ago, the world's oceans were viewed as too gargantuan for humans to influence.
This view was voiced most notably in 1883 by the English biologist Thomas Huxley, who in his inaugural address to the International Fisheries Exhibition in London asserted that "all the great sea fisheries are inexhaustible".
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