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Originally Posted by Jay-qu
I saw this on the news, truely shocking. But then there was a little add-on at the end saying something like "Australias fish population has actually increased due to conservation schemes..etc we are miles ahead of the world in this area" So our fish will last for a while longer  just so long as you guys dont start fishing our oceans! |
Yes surprisingly Australia is leading the world with Marine Parks, (
The Great Barrier Reef helps the stats. here); controlled commercial fish takes, buying back fishing licences; limits on bag sizes; species, and even time of harvest; limits on sporting fish; a hard nose policy on poaching (Orange Roughy in the South; Indonesian Shark-Fin poachers in the North.); research ( especially at James Cook Uni) and Fish & Shellfood-Farming in Tasmania. (including amazing
Sea Horses for the Chinese medicinal market)
We take less seafood, per 1000Sq metres of sea, than any other country.
Still Japan is clean sweeping the Pacific with
huge Factory Ships and 'buttering up' corrupt Pacific principalities with "aid"
So things overall are grim
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WASHINGTON - Clambakes, crabcakes, swordfish steaks and even humble fish sticks could be little more than a fond memory in a few decades.
If current trends of overfishing and pollution continue, by 2050 the populations of just about all seafood face collapse, defined as 90 percent depletion, a team of ecologists and economists warns in a study published in Friday’s issue of the journal Science.
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