you are VERY true on this point....this mostly hurt the fish we ended up getting in our tanks and did a lot in the way of pioneering new capture methods. the scale of destruction was not so widespread as to wipe out their entire reefs. the fact that all the large groupers and sharks and predators are being taken means that the whole clean up crew suffers starting from the top. add to that global warming??? and the dumping of harmful chemicals and the introduction of invasive species. you add them all up and they do all add to the whole problem. so we have contributed but nowhere near as much as other sources
