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Plenty more fish in the sea?

Newspaper headlines really claimed "Just 100 cod left in the North Sea". Can that be right? More or Less went trawling for the truth.

Newspaper headlines really claimed "Just 100 cod left in the North Sea". Can that be right?

More or Less went trawling for the truth and found that this may well be the most inaccurate headline we have ever covered.

Also in the programme, why Manchester City FC hopes data will do for football, what it's already done for baseball.

(Image: Cod on the deck of a fishing boat)

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Sun 30 Sep 2012 02:50GMT
BBC World Service Online

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