I'm not sure what part of the ocean you're looking at, specifically

Me personally at this moment? No longer working between Los Angeles and San Diego, I'm staring at the CA Central Coast, overlooking the potential site of the world's largest BESS (courtesy of Vistra) and the new 300sq mile offshore lease where wind turbines will be moored macerating flights of brant, and a crisscross network of electrical cables bisecting migration routes of grey and humpback whales. But the masses need air-conditioning, so it will be done.

For your side of the yard, look at GoM. I don't foresee supermarkets imposing meat reductions in an effort to help the GoM recover. Also, the SCOTUS recently reversed the Clean Water provision that would prevent pollution of land connected to navigable waters. Whether you call it pandering to greed or meeting the needs of the population, it's Bad Juju!

stltoday.com - Dead zone in crosshairs

They're the result of our societal and economic choices, not the destiny of limited resources or biology.

Whatever you're witnessing on the ocean is almost certainly the result of political and societal choices - not the inescapable consequences of economic growth.

Extinct and decimated species don't differentiate between choices and sheer dumb numbers.

Either way, decimated is decimated.