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Is that Futurama episode where anchovies went extinct (and Fry had the only remaining can) coming to pass?
I don't know that much about the situation in Europe, but here off California, anchovies are less abundant because of oceanic warming trends, not overfishing. They do better in cooler temperature regimes, which have been shown to oscillate over a period of about 40 years. Sardines are more abundant now for the same reason; studies of shed scales in seabed cores in the Santa Barbara Channel show this has been occurring for thousands of years. However, there's a lot of uncertainty as to what's going to be happening with oceanic conditions in the future. An entire CalCOFFI conference dealt with recent oceanic changes several years ago, and papers continue to be submitted on that topic every year since then.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1052319/The-end-anchovy-pizza-favourite-overfished.html.
I don't know that much about the situation in Europe, but here off California, anchovies are less abundant because of oceanic warming trends, not overfishing. They do better in cooler temperature regimes, which have been shown to oscillate over a period of about 40 years. Sardines are more abundant now for the same reason; studies of shed scales in seabed cores in the Santa Barbara Channel show this has been occurring for thousands of years. However, there's a lot of uncertainty as to what's going to be happening with oceanic conditions in the future. An entire CalCOFFI conference dealt with recent oceanic changes several years ago, and papers continue to be submitted on that topic every year since then.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1052319/The-end-anchovy-pizza-favourite-overfished.html.