I'd like to point out that the fish in question was served at his daughters REHEARSAL DINNER. Which is, as I'm sure you all know, primarily the GROOMS families obligation.
Needless to say, Mr. Gore bears little responsibility for his in-laws choice in seafood.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch site recommends avoiding Chilean Seabass for a number of reasons, not all having to do with overfishing. Here is a link to the page on Chilean Seabass. The Seafood Watch site is one good source of information on seafood and the environment.

To put this discussion into some context, it has to be understood that there is a difference between over-fished and endangered.

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Overfishing occurs when fishing activities reduce fish stocks below an acceptable level. This can occur in any body of water from a pond to the oceans. More precise biological and bioeconomic terms define 'acceptable level'.

An endangered species is a population of an organism which is at risk of becoming extinct because it is either few in number, or threatened by changing environmental or predation parameters.
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An overfished species- such as, arguably, the Chilean Sea Bass or weakfish- is *not* necessarily in danger of extinction; the 'acceptable level' in the above definition, while vague, is clearly a higher quantity than that involved in being endangered.

Does this mean that people should eat over-fished species? No, merely that their situation is not as dire as it could potentially be.

-Z