Jo Anne Slaven wrote:
>
> Orange roughy is absolutely wonderful tasting stuff. But it's been
> fished almost to the point of extinction. So my husband won't let me
> buy it any more.
>
> Jo Anne

That is correct. They are a long-lived deep sea fish and are having
trouble recovering from overfishing. There are a number of deep-sea
species that are being wiped out rapidly:
http://www.terranature.org/manWillWi...eCreatures.htm

I pretty much hate the idea of wild-harvesting fish.

-L.