Ocean Crisis

Mr. Boo

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/oceans-on-brink-of-catastrophe-2300272.html

Just so's you know.

It's bothersome.

Mr. Boo

Once again, commerce trumps ecology.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/revealed-the-bid-to-corner-worlds-bluefin-tuna-market-1695479.html

Capt'n Midnight

If you use the quote tags then you can show people the salient bits in the articles


http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/revealed-the-bid-to-corner-worlds-bluefin-tuna-market-1695479.html

Bluefin tuna frozen at -60C now could be sold in several years' time for astronomical sums if Atlantic bluefin becomes commercially extinct as forecast, a result of the near free-for-all enjoyed by the tuna fleet.

Politicians have disregarded scientists figures for sustainable fisheries in the past with dire consequences for all involved, look at Cod off Newfoundland.

Since the problem and solutions are political I'm moving the thread from Popular Science.

Mr. Boo

Thanks.

I guess there is bitterness and mistrust on all sides, as science is expected to give definite answers (where fisheries science is a minefield of assumptions and unknowns), but politicians (and I have the Eu's common fisheries policy in mind when I say this) tend to negotiate on the basis of the demands of their constituents in order to further their political careers. Ecology does not even figure in the end, as the scientific advice fed in one end of the machine comes out unrecognizable at the other...