[peejcj8]

http://www.cnn.com/2...s.ap/index.html

[TheLittleFisherThatCould]

WOW. People these will do alot for money. Thanks for informing us!

[Sandtiger]

Not good at all.............

Typical response from the seafood industry. I wouldn't expect anything less....

[Scallywag]

I understand it involves peoples jobs but dont they understand that they are destroying these positions for thier children.

[peejcj8]

But everyone is to blame!!!

As long as people expect to eat swordfish, tuna or any fish from the store or from a restaurant the comercial guys will catch the fish.

Also we eat alot of fish we catch, but non fishermen eat fish also. This will require alot from everyone.

Eric

[beawolf]

It would be nice if for once we learn before its to late.......... What can we do? I think we can remember that our votes count; for a change vote for the people who base thier running platforms on enviromental issues and not political retoric or party lines /// this may wake up the law makers and get the ball running in the correct direction for once.

[Mega Bite]

If there wasnt a Market for it all,they couldnt sell it.We might have to resort to farm raised SeaFood. That is just the Consumption part of the Equation,the pollution/Climate change problem is the other half.I like the part about we have to look at the entire ecosystem and not just a single species that is the key,my friend !

[hellmanbb]

I don't believe that things are as dire as this article suggests but, I do believe that industry, commercial and recreational fisherman can do more to help protect our waters. In my opinion things have been better in recent years.

[Volunteer]

Buffalo chips! Hellmanbb puts it mildly when he says things aren't as dire as the article suggests. Consider the source of the article: CNN.
They're in the news business to make money, and they fully realize that bad news and sex sell. Good news doesn't. This is just more doom and gloom from the environmentalist wackos and an overzealous media.

Anyway, I doubt I'll still be alive in 2048, but if I am, I'll bet I can still eat seafood. That is, if global warming, lead/mercury poisoning, high cholesterol, air pollution, acid rain, or the devestation of the rain forests doesn't get me first.

[peejcj8]

Here is the pilot's take on the same study.

http://content.hampt...n=12207&tref=po

[hellmanbb]

Buffalo chips!  Hellmanbb puts it mildly when he says things aren't as dire as the article suggests.  Consider the source of the article:  CNN.
They're in the news business to make money, and they fully realize that bad news and sex sell.  Good news doesn't.  This is just more doom and gloom from the environmentalist wackos and an overzealous media.

Anyway, I doubt I'll still be alive in 2048, but if I am, I'll bet I can still eat seafood.  That is, if global warming, lead/mercury poisoning, high cholesterol, air pollution, acid rain, or the devestation of the rain forests doesn't get me first.

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Yeah, you gotta remember that other than providing information (usually somewhat biased), the media is there to stir us up and get reactions. If you believe everything that was written 10 years ago about global warming then we would all have skin cancer and be living in a dessert wasteland by now!

[fishist]

The source of the article was Science Magazine, not CNN. They were one of many news organizations that chose to report it. And, while I agree that the priority and timing of it by the media this close to election day leads to the suspicion that that part was political, the study itself is scholarly, conducted by an international team of scientists including our own J. Emmett Duffy of VIMS. Its conclusions may be disputable but the data itself is pretty much pure science, not the work of "environmentalist wackos". The fact that biodiversity is important in maintaining a balanced ecosystem and that things like oil and fertilizer runoff, coastal development, and overfishing harm that ecosystem should surprise no one. It's been said over and over again right here on the VBSF forum. Also, Megabite is right. "We have seen the enemy and he is us". And the worst of us are those who choose to deny or ignore the problem.

[dirtyhandslopez]

Sometimes it's hard to believe the pastures going bad when you have steak on your plate.....The U.S. in general is still relatively newly settled, therefore the natural resources are still plentiful. Try surf fishing off the beaches of the U.K. or anywhere where there has been a large concentration of people for a looong time, pickings are pretty skinny. Look after what we've got and eat plenty but nothing is limitless.

[Sandtiger]

I like the part about we have to look at the entire ecosystem and not just a single species that is the key,my friend !

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This is a statement I have made for years. About 8 to 10 years ago I stood before the VMRC and said the same thing; that we shouldn't be handling this fish issue on a species by species fish count - we should manage the whole marine ecology as a complete system. I was kind of pushed aside. I hope someone wakes up.

One way to strat to control things is to do away with long lines as a fishing method and also purse seining. Just my thoughts for what they are worth.

There are a lot of things that could be done recreationally also, but trying to sort it out to get a good starting point might hard.