Are there enough fish in the sea?!
Are there enough fish in the sea?
The name af tuna translates to "one ton fish" from my native language. Yet these days finding tuna that size at any of the fishmarkets is near enough impossible. We are encouraged to eat more fish for the omega 3 health benefits. Tuna is being particularily popular because it is low fat and high in protein, perfect weight loss food.
Do you think we should try to reduce the ammount of fish we consume to reduce the likellyhood that our tastiest fishes, like tuna, go exctinct?
Following are some links to get more background information on this issue. The second link tells what species are to be avoided due to a low population.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/overfishing...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_typ...
1 month ago
Pure Gud Man: Pandas and elephants do not taste as good. Elephants however do posses something of value: ivory. Check out the following link on something called "Tragedy of the commons"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tragedy_of_...
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1 month ago
Pure Gud Man: Pandas and elephants do not taste as good. Elephants however do posses something of value: ivory. Check out the following link on something called "Tragedy of the commons"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tragedy_of_...
we neednot stop or reduce eatin' tunas or any other fish. bt we observe a few norms like
1. hole size of net shud b larger so that immatured fich cud escape thru it.
2. pregnant fishes shud be thrown back in water
3. culture fishery shud b encouraged than capture fishery
Tuna is extremely high in mercury
I totally agree with you, lets leave the fish alone, we should eat the pandas and the elephants, they do bugger all anyway.
sadly,there isn't . overfishing and high demand go hand in hand. thank-god there is global warming.
We are hurting our oceans and seas! Daniel Pauly, a fisheries scientist at the University of British Columbia. “You create more customers for fish and invariably increase the pressure on the stocks.”
Pauly and other critics believe it’s too late for the market alone to protect fish when the world’s population is growing and two-thirds of the world’s commercial stocks are already being fished at or beyond their capacity.
The only solution to overfishing, they say, is for governments to muster the political will to restrict catches and take other measures to slow the plunder of the sea’s diminishing bounty…
An ever-increasing demand for seafood, combined with technical advances that now power the international fishing fleet, have precipitated a global marine fisheries crisis. Fish populations cannot reproduce fast enough to keep pace with the fishing effort. The results of a long-term study conducted by a team of marine scientists recently concluded that 90% of the large fish species in the world's oceans have been fished out in the last 50 years. Most the world's primary fisheries are either fully exploited or depleted.
no we need more fishes
there are way more fish in the seas then any other life form on the planet.. and a fish reproduces way fast and grows even faster....
Its called a food chain for a reason. EAT fish
It's a sad fact that we(humans) are a parasite and will squeeze what we can out of the planet but I aggree we should try to manage the worlds resources better so we and the planet can have a better future!
No where near enough.
No, I don't think there are.
There are bugger all Cod left around the UK, they've either been fished out of the water or migrated further North to escape the warming waters.
Just think about Monk fish, (Angler Fish or Star Gazer). To get at that the nets have scrape the whole bottom of the sea bed. Think about the habitats that have been destroyed down there because of that.
Whenever I go to a fish mongers and see all of the amazing fish I always wonder about all of the others that didn't make the cut and were thrown away, dead, because of quotas or sizes.
Try buying line caught fish.
I'm with you - I don't like fish and we should leave the fish where they are and one day in the future, we won't have any fish to catch. If we did fish, we should release the fish on the spot, no matter what kind of fish it is and it doesn't matter the size of the fish, either.
you are right we should consume less of everything really its not only the fish that are becoming extinct. Because of mans insatiable appetite we are eating/consuming everything that is in our range from ocean to land. An individual can probably try cutting down but try telling the nation and specially the greed of commercial gain takes precedent over any extinction as it is with the whales if u remember. campaigners such as green peace did achieve certain result but still not enough in 20 years. so lets hope that we as the human race see some sense specially in the west because we are the mass killers with low populations in countries.
we don't kill for need, we kill to feed the hunger for copper's the rich man's palate will give us.
we are human we will feed but c'mon let us kill for the very survival need.
Not just for pleasure and greed.
If we slow down on making babies we should have no trouble with having plenty of fish to eat.It's just a matter of numbers.