Can we have our fish and eat it too? An unusual collaboration of marine ecologists and fisheries management scientists says the answer may be yes. In a research paper in Friday's issue of the journal Science, the two groups, long at odds with each other, offer a global assessment of the world's saltwater fish and their environments. Their conclusions are at once gloomy -- overfishing continues to threaten many species -- and upbeat: a combination of steps can turn things around. But because antagonism between ecologists and fisheries management experts has been intense, many familiar with the study say the most important factor is that it was done at all.
In a research paper in Friday's issue of the journal Science, the two groups, long at odds with each other, offer a global assessment of the world's saltwater fish and their environments.
Their conclusions are at once gloomy -- overfishing continues to threaten many species -- and upbeat: a combination of steps can turn things around. But because antagonism between ecologists and fisheries management experts has been intense, many familiar with the study say the most important factor is that it was done at all.
And I think we really need to start getting very tough about Tuna globally. keep to the Fen Causeway
There is no dealing with these people. They agree to terms when the patient is close to dead, then go after something else. Since they are technically going after something else, any by-catch is thrown away dead, and they don't have to report that they are continuing to screw the corpse.
At least with fruits of the land, they can fool us by letting them look like tomatoes still...even if the depleted earth will give them only a 10th of the nutrients...
One wonders, if there were a 3 year moratorium, and we had to pay for all the out of work fisherpersons around the world and the people who rely upon their industry...would the fish come back so that a logical and workable scheme could be worked out and implemented? Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.
Frank Delaney ~ Ireland
