Fish are harder to come by

[FluffyMcDeath]

Here's a scary story. Despite very much improved equipment and high tech methods for finding the fish, fishermen have to work 17 times harder for their fish than they did a hundred years ago.

Why are they so hard to come by? it seems that it's mostly down to the fact that we've eaten them. And because we have been eating the fish, the things that the fish used to eat are starting to take over and even grow to sizes that the fish can't eat anymore - and even to the extent that the prey becomes the hunter. Watch out for jellyfish.

 

[Robert]

Yup - the human population is now so great compared to 100 years ago that the consumption of fish is already past tipping point.

Crying shame because I love fish.

But never mind that. Listen to the pope; have more babies and eat more fish. Keep doing that till there's no more fish and no more room. Then God will solve the problem. Or something. Ignorant arseholes.

 

[Glaucus]

Ya, it does suck because I love seafood. Now if only everyone else could develop a great distaste for it everything would be fine. :mrgreen:

Unfortunately fish from fish farms just aren't half as good as the wild fish. But we may end up having no choice.

 

[faethor]

Bluefin Tuna was recently put on the Endangered list in the USA. While I've enjoyed it on sashmi I understand that perhaps my children or grandchildren would like the liberty of being able to enjoy the opportunity if they so choose.

Unfortunately the oil spill is a bad thing. See Bluefin breed once a year and in spring. While they live all over the world they breed in the Gulf. Baby Bluefins don't distinquish food from non-food. They eat anything floating by them. Well, their spring breeding ground is now filled with lots of oil. The oil is floating around in little bubbles. Even BP has agreed the oil content is above the 10 parts per million considered leathal to ocean life. Will the Bluefin survive the diet on oil? It'll be a question that'll be answered in a few years.

BP may be the proverbial nail in the coffin for the Bluefin.

The oceans are a place we humans know little about. We have mapped a larger % of the moon than we have of the ocean floor. We're just realizing the impact the ocean has on the oxygen cycle and food cycle of the planet. We've lots to go on understanding this world. Seems to me a bit of conservatism might not only do the planet good, but us too.