This is because of overfishing. Despite the monkfish's foul looks, it's meat is delicate and white like an angel's wings and its liver is used by the Japanese, Americans, Koreans, and French for various dishes. The monkfish is easily overfished because the larger females are edible but they take a long time to mature. In fact the female monkfish grows to adulthood at 9-11 years old only at 70 cm which means that if all these countries want to eat monkfish then they have to wait 9-11 years until the monkfish fully matured. This means because of the high demand, many monkfish do not reach adult hood to mate and reproduce causing the monkfish population to slowly shrink to
This is because of overfishing. Despite the monkfish's foul looks, it's meat is delicate and white like an angel's wings and its liver is used by the Japanese, Americans, Koreans, and French for various dishes. The monkfish is easily overfished because the larger females are edible but they take a long time to mature. In fact the female monkfish grows to adulthood at 9-11 years old only at 70 cm which means that if all these countries want to eat monkfish then they have to wait 9-11 years until the monkfish fully matured. This means because of the high demand, many monkfish do not reach adult hood to mate and reproduce causing the monkfish population to slowly shrink to