While conservation groups and mainstream media wail about these dire straits, Hilborn has been scratching his head and taking a critical look at the data used to make these predictions. After calling the study mind bogglingly stupid, he reached out to Boris Worm, its head author and thankfully someone you can talk to, to discuss the projection s main shortcomings. Namely, why it doesn t make sense to base projections of how many fish there will be in the future solely on trends of how many fish are being