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another man made disaster

davidc4430 — Sun, 06 Dec 2020 22:39:27 GMT

It might be the world's biggest ocean, but the mighty Pacific is in peril

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-07/pacific-ocean-climate-change-ecology-under-threat/12952142

greed is behind it all

Re: another man made disaster

bright.ton42 — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 01:28:20 GMT

To prevent overfishing, governments should address the issue of poverty and poor education in small fishing communities. This may involve finding them a new source of income.

Good luck with that. Maybe teach them to produce more jewellery from coconuts? And to eat sand? It's not the small boats that cause overfishing but the mega businesses who fish by the tonnes and who the governments will not take one step to control, ever. Who dump broken nets of a humungus size overboard to strangle sea life. And the scourge of plastic waste in the oceans caused by the horrid humans who consider the earth to be a huge rubbish bin for them discarding anything and everything where they stand. It's hard not to despair sometimes.

Re: another man made disaster

myoclon1cjerk — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 04:01:23 GMT

Running out of fish
A third of commercial fish stocks are being harvested at biologically unsustainable levels and 90 percent are fully exploited, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. The population of Pacific bluefin tuna, for instance, has plunged 97 percent from historic levels due to rampant overfishing of one of the ocean’s most ecologically and economically valuable top predators.