Seafood Facts: Is the only path forward to copy the past?

Made up of two bones in humans, one in fish, the otolith orients humans in the world by transmitting though contact with tiny sensor hairs varying degrees of pressure that signal a message to the brain of our body's position relative to the earth. In fish, the [their] otolith may send another message to our brains which signals our bodies' metaphysical position relative to the earth.
In our evolutionary ancestors, fish, their feather shaped structure of calcium carbonate or otolith may provide the answers to most of the questions that are being asked by fishery managers and marine biologists who are trying to document just how much can we dump or take from our oceans each year.
In marine vertebrae this strikingly sculptural and opalescent surfaced otolith stone has been contributing vast amounts of data to a sea of information intended to reveal our oceans' health, abundance and relative prognosis for the future. Now, like the fish, we are using their larger less evolved otoliths to establish our balance and equilibrium with our oceans and perhaps our planet.
Thousands of researchers around the world spend their whole working days looking at fish otolith's because of the staggering amount of information they contain. Among the information obtained through otolith capture data (ocd) are species, age, chemical composition, size, temperature and salinity of the water through which the fish moved, diet, and various environmental contaminants encountered.
Technicians and scientists are charting data from a system which is already out of balance. It is all the more challenging to use this data to devise a plan for action that may reestablish the equilibrium necessary to continue depending on our planet to provide the abundance of renewable seafood resources we think we need to survive.
A new question arises, "Can we add and remove factors within this complex system and reestablish a new perhaps more diverse and somehow better homeostasis [balance] or must we attempt to recreate a system which existed more than 200 years ago"?
Thank you to Donald F. Azuma at the Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia for sharing my relevant interest in the fascinating study of otoliths and sending me the picture.