5 Nov 2006

No more Fish

Study warns that all seafood stocks will have collapsed by 2048

"Fish stocks are declining so rapidly that scientists have predicted that they will disappear by the middle of the century unless radical measures are taken to protect them.

A study of more than 100 fishing regions, published in the journal Science, suggests that if current trends are maintained every seafood species will have collapsed below commercially viable levels by 2048." Source: Times Online

See also When Fish Disappear - The Scientist and this:
UN weighs trawling ban as fish disappear - "The United Nations needs to stop the destruction of deep sea ecosystems by banning fishermen from trawling nets on the ocean floor, Australia, New Zealand and Palau, joined by actress Sigourney Weaver, said on Tuesday." More on Independent Online