Post by matt on May 9, 2007 10:04:30 GMT -4
Shamelessly stolen from the web:
It may be that the cod was the first of many to go. By all estimates the world's fish stocks has declined. By the worst estimates, by as much as 80-90% in the last century and there’s no sign of improvement. The potential for famine is alarming.
"Everything surrounding [the] Mexican trawlerman's hands will go to waste; he will sell only the shrimp."
Full report - www7.nationalgeographic.com/n...re1/index.html
Multimedia story for the ADD among us - www7.nationalgeographic.com/n...nds/index.html
Anyone still wondering what we ought to do about the Chesapeake Fisheries!?
It may be that the cod was the first of many to go. By all estimates the world's fish stocks has declined. By the worst estimates, by as much as 80-90% in the last century and there’s no sign of improvement. The potential for famine is alarming.
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Popular species such as cod have plummeted from the North Sea to Georges Bank off New England. In the Mediterranean, 12 species of shark are commercially extinct, and swordfish there, which should grow as thick as a telephone pole, are now caught as juveniles and eaten when no bigger than a baseball bat. With many Northern Hemisphere waters fished out, commercial fleets have steamed south, overexploiting once teeming fishing grounds. Off West Africa, poorly regulated fleets, both local and foreign, are wiping out fish stocks from the productive waters of the continental shelf, depriving subsistence fishermen in Senegal, Ghana, Guinea, Angola, and other countries of their families' main source of protein. In Asia, so many boats have fished the waters of the Gulf of Thailand and the Java Sea that stocks are close to exhaustion. "The oceans are suffering from a lot of things, but the one that overshadows everything else is fishing," said Joshua S. Reichert of the Pew Charitable Trusts. "And unless we get a handle on the extraction of fish and marine resources, we will lose much of the life that remains in the sea."
"Everything surrounding [the] Mexican trawlerman's hands will go to waste; he will sell only the shrimp."
Full report - www7.nationalgeographic.com/n...re1/index.html
Multimedia story for the ADD among us - www7.nationalgeographic.com/n...nds/index.html
Anyone still wondering what we ought to do about the Chesapeake Fisheries!?