Fish, seafood on track to disappear by 2048

[Offshore Custom Tackle]

Fish, seafood on track to disappear by 2048:



WASHINGTON (AFP) - The world's fish and seafood could disappear by 2048 as overfishing and pollution destroy ocean ecosystems at an accelerating pace, US and Canadian researchers reported.



If current global trends continue, the loss of fish and seafood will threaten humans' food supplies and the environment, according to the most exhaustive study to date on the subject, published in the November 3 issue of the US journal Science.

"Our analyzes suggest that business as usual would foreshadow serious threats to global food security, coastal water quality, and ecosystem stability, affecting current and future generations," the international team of ecologists and economists wrote in "Impact of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services."

The four-year analysis was the first to study all existing data on ocean species and ecosystems and synthesize them to understand the importance of biodiversity at the global scale.

"Whether we looked at tide pools or studies over the entire world's ocean, we saw the same picture emerging," lead author Boris Worm of Dalhousie University, in Canada, said in a statement.

Worm said the disappearance of species from ocean ecosystems had been accelerating.

"Now we begin to see some of the consequences. For example, if the long-term trend continues, all fish and seafood species are projected to collapse within my lifetime -- by 2048," Worm said.

"In losing species we lose the productivity and stability of entire ecosystems. I was shocked and disturbed by how consistent these trends are -- beyond anything we expected."

At this point, 29 of currently fished species were considered "collapsed" in 2003, that is, their catches have declined by 90 percent or more, he said.

"It is a very clear trend, and it is accelerating," he said

[blackwell50]

We need to do something quick,but Im not sure what.

[Offshore Custom Tackle]

Reading this makes me sick, And if they are right, we need to do something..

[hotrodmarlin]

We can only do so much- it is the rest of that doesn't give a shit.

[Deep C]

We'll be lucky to make 2020 as recs if NMFS stays in power... They are the problem. Crap on the recs but let the vacuming of the oceans continue.
Better wake up people thwy keep on taking and taking... Why? Not because they can, but because we as a whole have not gotten off our collective dead ass and said "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!. That's all it takes but everybody is too busy or intimidated to do something.
That won't be me. Do they listen? Hell yes they do if you speak up!!! How do I know? Cause I spoke up loud and clear enough for them to invite me for a private meeting next week with their top two men.
Much of what their problem is is that they don't hear what the people think because the people don't try to talk to them. Thats why they were actually eager to meet with me. They want input from John Q public. They are looking to hear "Bullshit... That's just wrong" from people in the field instead of some theory penned by some scientist who has no practical experience. Look at their advisory pannel. I see one rep from the recreational end. Jim Donofrio with RFA. The rest are scientists or worse yet. Management from canneries and fish processing plants...
GET INVOLVED!

[flatbottom]

if you think that was enough to read......their is a group trying to pass a law saying charter captains in the Chesapeake will only be allowed to run one charter a day. The ocean charters are next on the list. Chew that for awhile when thinking about circle hooks. Let your voice be heard or plant flowers with the wife and sell the boat.....I need a black coffee

[jbrob]

if you think that was enough to read......their is a group trying to pass a law saying charter captains in the Chesapeake will only be allowed to run one charter a day. The ocean charters are next on the list. Chew that for awhile when thinking about circle hooks. Let your voice be heard or plant flowers with the wife and sell the boat.....I need a black coffee

good grammar and punctuation aside, I need to say nothing more.

[HOLWACHAGOT]

good grammar and punctuation aside, I need to say nothing more.

What are you talking about now bjrob? Flats grammar and punctuation. Holwachagot

[flatbottom]

good grammar and punctuation aside, I need to say nothing more.

I will let the members toy with you bud

[Squidnation]

i Raed wat flatbottom rote and I dont sea eny [roblems atal, four what it's worth.