[Newsbot]

Title: Ocean fish numbers on 'brink of collapse,' WWF reports
Category: World
Posted By: ShepherdsDog
Date: 2015-09-16 07:26:29
Canadian

[uwish]

as an avid diver, this is really worrisome. I have seen the reefs in Turks and Caicos, Hawaii die over the past decade. Even when I was in the Maldives I have seen some impact of lower water pH on the pinnacle reef systems surrounding the archipelagos.

I have a massive saltwater predator tank with triggers, puffers, butterfly and angel fish all captive bread. Amazing creatures that I want to see remain in the wild, active and thriving...

we have to stop using the ocean as a dumping ground.

[DrCaleb]

uwish uwish:

we have to stop using the ocean as a dumping ground.

We also have to stop strip mining it, and taking all the top predators out of the ecosystem.

[DrCaleb]

And . .how did the exact same story appear twice on the front page?

[ShepherdsDog]

Sink a few Japanese, Korean and Chinese trawlers?

[ShepherdsDog]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

And . .how did the exact same story appear twice on the front page?

I dunno. I didn't see it when I posted it.

[BartSimpson]

uwish uwish:

we have to stop using the ocean as a dumping ground.

Unless "we" includes China and the rest of the Pacific Rim 2nd and 3rd world countries then it's irrelevant.

Because far more damaging than plastic is the prevalent Asian practices of using cyanide as a tool for fishing. It's killing reefs and collapsing fisheries everywhere in the Western Pacific.

[DrCaleb]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Sink a few Japanese, Korean and Chinese trawlers?

. . .Spanish, Portuguese . . . sorry, was fantasizing . . .

You know, one time I had an Orange Roughy. That was before anyone understood it's life cycle. It might have been 300 years old, before I ate it.

[2Cdo]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Sink a few Japanese, Korean and Chinese trawlers?

. . .Spanish, Portuguese . . . sorry, was fantasizing . . .

You know, one time I had an Orange Roughy. That was before anyone understood it's life cycle. It might have been 300 years old, before I ate it.

Delicious fish. Too bad we decimated its stock before we understood what we were doing.

[ShepherdsDog]

Really? We used to buy it at fish markets in Kaohsiung all the time.

[DrCaleb]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Really? We used to buy it at fish markets in Kaohsiung all the time.

Yup. They started dropping nets lower and lower, and suddenly found this huge cache of Orange Roughy off New Zealand, around 3km down. But, as it turns out, the Roughy lives in such a cold and dark environment, they hardly reproduce. You can't find one now, because 90% of them were wiped out. They won't recover for centuries.

Just another example of what we do before we know what the costs will be.

[2Cdo]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Really? We used to buy it at fish markets in Kaohsiung all the time.

Haven't seen it in Canada in years. But it doesn't surprise me that Asian fish markets would carry it. There's no sense of conservation of anything in the Far East.

[DrCaleb]

2Cdo 2Cdo:

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Really? We used to buy it at fish markets in Kaohsiung all the time.

Haven't seen it in Canada in years. But it doesn't surprise me that Asian fish markets would carry it. There's no sense of conservation of anything in the Far East.

^^ This!



Once they are gone, then it'll be time.

[Freakinoldguy]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Sink a few Japanese, Korean and Chinese trawlers?

So you're suggesting we should sell Green Peace a Uboat?

[ShepherdsDog]

Let Lizzie captain it....make sure it has a slow leak too.