Yale Environment 360: Your jaws gonna fricking drop, the guy fishing next to me said, when after, like, three minutes, you still havent hit bottom. These words were spoken to me last September as I dropped a three-pound weight and two globs of clam bait over the side of the party fishing boat Viking Star into an abyss few people know exist -- an abyss that is re-emerging as a battleground in the fight for the worlds dwindling natural resources.
I was fishing 150 miles off Long Island in a bioregion commonly...