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Do you have evidence that oceans were less plentiful in the past? Or are you just taking a contrarian position because it's easy?
if you can dismiss the proofless infograph without proof, I can dismiss your dismissal without proof. We can go on recursively all day.
Look, if this were a publication in a scientific journal, sure.
But it's not. It's a webforum. In casual conversation, you can gesture to the idea that there was more sealife before mechanization, pollution, and industrial fishing becacasue... yeah. Duh. Of course there was.
Your whole attitude has been bad faith from the beginning. I think your curiosity would have gone over a lot better had you stopped before saying "Or is this just wish-fulfillment hogwash?"
I don't see why you had to start off so combative.