About Callum Roberts: Callum Michael Roberts is a marine conservation biologist, oceanographer, author, research scholar at the University of York, England.
In the European Union, the relationship between politicians and the fishing industry has become like that of a doctor assisting the suicide of a patient.
Extinction, the irrevocable loss of a species, causes pain that can never find relief. It is an ache that will pass from generation to generation for the rest of human history.