The World’s Seafood Population Will Not Be Sustainable In The Year 2050
The World’s Seafood Population Will Not Be Sustainable In The Year 2050…Because every corner of the Earth’s oceans has been impacted by commercial fishing, and many commercial fisheries are now in a state of collapse, warns Dr. Boris Worm, a prominent marine biologist and primary author of a peer-reviewed paper published in Science entitled, Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services (Science, November 2006: Vol. 314. no. 5800, pp. 787 – 790).
The World’s Seafood Population Will Not Be Sustainable In The Year 2050 Because Of Over Fishing. The plundering of the world’s seafood populations is not sustainable, warns Dr. Worm. The rapid depletion of important predator species like sharks, combined with the loss of slow growing marine mammals such as whales, is causing a dangerous natural imbalance in the sustainability of ocean life, as we know it today.
From the commercial harvesting of krill to the cruel practice of “finning” sharks, humans are impacting marine ecosystems in a short-sighted and dangerous way, warns Dr. Worm.
Truth be…not all the news about commercial fishing of the world’s oceans is negative, however. Dr. Worm points to some important success stories of sustainable commercial fishing operations, including certain aquaculture farms. What he does do is urge consumers to inform themselves about the origins of seafood so that they might make better decisions when buying seafood at the grocery store or ordering it at restaurants.
However, Dr. Worm warns people that unless these success stories are embraced and applied across the board, much of the seafood humans now catch and consume could be virtually nonexistent by the year 2050.
Baby Boomers it is up to us to save the earth and oceans…remember the 60’s…the only thing that has changed is we have gotten older and hopefully wiser. I won’t be here in 2050 but my niece and her children will be and I would like for them to be able to eat fresh fish and other wonderful sea foods.
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