'Only 50 years left' for sea fish
By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News website
There will be virtually nothing left to fish from the seas by the middle of the century if current trends continue, according to a major scientific study.
Stocks have collapsed in nearly one-third of sea fisheries, and the rate of decline is accelerating.
Writing in the journal Science, the international team of researchers says fishery decline is closely tied to a broader loss of marine biodiversity.
But a greater use of protected areas could safeguard existing stocks.
"The way we use the oceans is that we hope and assume there will always be another species to exploit after we've completely gone through the last one," said research leader Boris Worm, from Dalhousie University in Canada.
"What we're highlighting is there is a finite number of stocks; we have gone through one-third, and we are going to get through the rest," he told the BBC News website.
Steve Palumbi, from Stanford University in California, one of the other scientists on the project, added: "Unless we fundamentally change the way we manage all the ocean species together, as working ecosystems, then this century is the last century of wild seafood."
For the rest of this eye opening story, go to BBC NEWS Science/Nature 'Only 50 years left' for sea fish .
See, it just goes to show what I have been professing for along time. Man, with his infinite God given wisdom, will let his "inate stupidity" and "egocentric personality" screw this whole worldly deal up. Give me a break! What is so freaking hard to figure that you cannot keep taking, without ever replacing and replenishing? What, is man so arrogant and stupid that he thinks, "don't worry, they'll come back, God will replace them".
Listen, I happen to LOVE seafood. When the day arrives that I cannot get a good seafood meal, that is when the proverbial "sh-t hits the fan"! Do yourself a favor, "read the rest of this story" and let's all make sure that this day NEVER comes!
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