World's Seafood Suppy May Run Out

[Big Ol' Smitty]

World's Fish Supply Running Out, Researchers Warn

 

By Juliet Eilperin

Washington Post Staff Writer

Friday, November 3, 2006; Page A01

 

An international group of ecologists and economists warned yesterday that the world will run out of seafood by 2048 if steep declines in marine species continue at current rates, based on a four-year study of catch data and the effects of fisheries collapses.

 

The paper, published in the journal Science, concludes that overfishing, pollution and other environmental factors are wiping out important species around the globe, hampering the ocean's ability to produce seafood, filter nutrients and resist the spread of disease.

 

"We really see the end of the line now," said lead author Boris Worm, a marine biologist at Canada's Dalhousie University. "It's within our lifetime. Our children will see a world without seafood if we don't change things."

 

The 14 researchers from Canada, Panama, Sweden, Britain and the United States spent four years analyzing fish populations, catch records and ocean ecosystems to reach their conclusion. They found that by 2003 -- the last year for which data on global commercial fish catches are available -- 29 percent of all fished species had collapsed, meaning they are now at least 90 percent below their historic maximum catch levels...

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...6110200913.html

[Red Baron]

While I'm not the one that'll eat fish on a daily business, I'm sure local business around the eastern sea board will be hurting on this. You can tell this easily in Canada, especially in Newfoundland since there is no more Cod thanks to the Spaniards.

[MrRant]

From what I recall there are a good amount of restrictions on US and Canadian fishing, but nothing stopping our friends to the Far East.

 

 

BTW, Skippers > Long John Silver.

[Wyld Cannon]

I like that they are worried that there will no longer be any seafood, not that there will no longer be any fish.

[MarvinisaLunatic]

I like that they are worried that there will no longer be any seafood, not that there will no longer be any fish.

 

Well, what good are fish for besides being seafood?

 

And this could be prevented if there was more farmed raised seafood, but its too expensive for consumers and it doesn't have the taste of wild caught seafood.

[Star Ocean 3]

I like that they are worried that there will no longer be any seafood, not that there will no longer be any fish.

 

Well, what good are fish for besides being seafood?

 

 

Ecosystem?

[MrRant]

Pshaw.

[In Credible]

It's ok, I don't like seafood.

[Henry Spencer]

Good riddence.