This made the morning news shows today:
http://www.webmd.com/content/article/129/117379
"The apocalypse has a new date: 2048. That's when the
world's oceans will be empty of fish, predicts an
international team of ecologists and economists. The
cause: the disappearance of species due to
overfishing, pollution, habitat loss, and climate
change.
The study by Boris Worm, PhD, of Dalhousie University
in Halifax, Nova Scotia, -- with colleagues in the
U.K., U.S., Sweden, and Panama -- was an effort to
understand what this loss of ocean species might mean
to the world. The researchers analyzed several
different kinds of data. Even to these ecology-minded
scientists, the results were an unpleasant surprise.
"I was shocked and disturbed by how consistent these
trends are -- beyond anything we suspected," Worm says
in a news release. "This isn't predicted to happen.
This is happening now," study researcher Nicola
Beaumont, PhD, of the Plymouth Marine Laboratory,
U.K., says...
"If biodiversity continues to decline, the marine
environment will not be able to sustain our way of
life. Indeed, it may not be able to sustain our lives
at all," Beaumont adds. Already, 29% of edible fish
and seafood species have declined by 90% -- a drop
that means the collapse of these fisheries...
I'd already stopped eating shrimp some years back,
because of large by-catch loss ("undesirable" marine
animals caught in the nets and tossed back, usually
dead), and had reduced my tuna intake b/c of dolphins
and albatross loss...guess I'll have to start my own
catfish farm, or something.
Debbi
who doesn't have an above-ground swimming pool to
convert {nods to Jay Leno}
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