Yes, same around here....it's been so over-fished, nothing can recover...there are people fishing off the shore constantly, and they take anything they catch....I saw an old woman and her young daughter the other day...scraping a colony of very small mussels off the rocks, to make soup with....they took every single one!!!...they wiped out an entire little colony that had just started to establish itself...people have no idea...it's an education thing...
That is an absolutely critical and important point that you make about the non-sustainable feed requirements of the fish-farm industry...thanks for that..
Yes, but the point is, the ocean's ecosystem is like a pack of cards....take out one major player like the tuna, and other large shoal fish like cod, salmon, and the knock-on effect is huge. it has a domino effect, the whole system gets hit. So if you care about fish, you have to care about tuna...you can't have one without the other...
Well, I thought it was about time to expand my interests beyond breasts and painting, so I chose fish...logical, innit?....
But on a serious note, I think the internet is the best thing we have to change global mind sets...and I think YouTube and Facebook and all the other sites are great mechanisms for human change...power to the people..
Yeah. me too...I eat a ton of tuna....and I really feel that I should react on this issue, but outside of simply not eating fish, I'm not sure there's anything anyone I can do. I think it's a question of politics and money (as it usually is...).Those financiers and owners behind those fishing fleets have so much money invested, that they all want to get their equity out before it's all gone...in other words, it's like a crashing stock market, and everybody's rushing for the door at the same time....take what you can get, and get the hell out of the door before the building comes crashing down!!....
You have to copy/paste the whole link....you can't just click on the blue automated part....sorry for that..
"Big-Fish Stocks Fall 90 Percent Since 1950, Study Says National Geographic News May 15, 2003 Only 10 percent of all large fish—both open ocean species including tuna, swordfish, marlin and the large groundfish such as cod, halibut, skates and flounder—are left in the sea, according to research published in today's issue of the scientific journal Nature."
here are some others....there is a ton of it out there...
You have to copy/paste the whole link....you can't just click on the blue automated part....sorry for that..
"Big-Fish Stocks Fall 90 Percent Since 1950, Study Says National Geographic News May 15, 2003 Only 10 percent of all large fish—both open ocean species including tuna, swordfish, marlin and the large groundfish such as cod, halibut, skates and flounder—are left in the sea, according to research published in today's issue of the scientific journal Nature."
here are some others....there is a ton of it out there...
I would love to meet absolutely everybody....and force them to drink lots of cabernet, and pesto... and steal zolls from Smoky, but this time not buy her any beers in exchange, and squeeze Sommer's bum, and hug Imma, and leer down Jan's blouse...oh!...what fun!!...imagine!??...
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Is it Time to Stop Eating Fish??
What do you NEVER say to a mermaid...??....."Honey, I think your halibut looks big in those jeans..."