By: George_Spiggott
D'y'know, I'm starting to come around on the subject of genetic engineering. While I have a massive, and wholly justified, distrust of the companies that are practicing it now (and their political...
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When someone develops huge-scale fish farming, it will be a boon to humanity. Oh it will, huh?
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Believe it or not, there are things even worse than bottom-dragging trawl nets: fishing with dynamite and cyanide. These things are far, far worse than mere overfishing; they destroy the ecosystem...
View ArticleBy: Holden
When someone develops huge-scale fish farming, it will be a boon to humanity. There's a hair-raising photo in the "Heavy Toll" interactive feature of shark fins drying in the sun. Hundreds and hundreds...
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Unfortunately, like most things in life, people will not care until it is already too late.
View ArticleBy: piskycritter
If you need to feed from the sea, these folks would like to help you do it responsibly: Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood WATCH Audubon Living Oceans Seafood Lovers Guide Card
View ArticleBy: crazy finger
I did some research a little while back about groups like NASCO. Nasco was set up as an international organization for the protection of Salmon stocks in the North Atlantic and the membership includes...
View ArticleBy: aramaic
The seas probably won't become entirely barren, but the commercial fisheries will collapse -- rather like the Grand Banks cod fishery. ...the amusing thing is that any attempt to regulate the fishing...
View ArticleBy: Decypher
Alternatives? Unfortunately, there are very few. As an avid fisherman, I always envisioned a plan where you would completely ban commercial fishing. If you wanted to have fish, you would have to use...
View ArticleBy: ashbury
Good post, stbalbach. In my opinion, this situation has been known about for many years, and scientists had predicted it well before, but it's only now hitting the media with any degree of seriousness....
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Resources mentioned in the article include "The Empty Ocean" by Richard Ellis and "In a Perfect Ocean: The State of Fisheries and Ecosystems in the North Atlantic Ocean" by Daniel Pauly. Using...
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The NY Times is running a series of fishy articles about the ocean environment, fish and health. Of note the Java Interactive Feature "Heavy Toll" (see link 1) has an underwater cam of a trawlnet to...
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