No more fish to eat in 40 years

[spindrifter]

The Times November 03, 2006

By Lewis Smith

Fish stocks are declining so rapidly that scientists have predicted that they will disappear by the middle of the century unless radical measures are taken to protect them.

A study of more than 100 fishing regions, published in the journal Science, suggests that if current trends are maintained every seafood species will have collapsed below commercially viable levels by 2048.

Its authors also found, however, that fish stocks and diversity recover quickly when marine ecosystems are managed to prevent overfishing.

Concerns have been raised for several decades over stocks of such fish as cod in the North Sea — but the extent to which species have declined worldwide and mankind’s effects on the Earth’s ecosystem shocked scientists.

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[buddysmellgood]

1. Can't eat the fish in the lakes and rivers now. We shouldn't be surprised.

[roamer65]

2. Don't worry...we'll have soylent green.

It's people! Soylent green is people! :puke:

Seriously, this is going to be a HUGE problem. I hope I don't live to see it.

[pitohui]

3. it's the tragedy of the commons

i've honestly given up hope, when we stopped fishing, other countries came in and fished our waters in the northeast to destruction anyway, i doubt anyone remembers all the "soviet fishing fleets" of the 70s any more, since the fish are gone and so are the soviets

there will always be catfish ponds but the sea seems to be a lost cause since there is no unified political will to protect it