Instead bringing children to some gory Shark Tournament...We should educate them that we have 'Only 50 years left' for sea fish' THINK NOW before it is to late.
Educating in schools is a good start…but not the way it is conducted at the…Disgusting Montauk Shark Tournament.
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'Only 50 years left' for sea fish'
By
Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News
website
Natural
protection
There will be virtually nothing left to fish from the seas by the
middle of the century if current trends continue, according to a
major scientific study. Stocks have collapsed in nearly one-third
of sea fisheries, and the rate of decline is accelerating.
Writing in the journal Science, the international team of
researchers says fishery decline is closely tied to a broader loss
of marine biodiversity.
But a greater use of protected areas could safeguard existing
stocks. "The way we use the oceans is that we hope and assume there
will always be another species to exploit after we've completely
gone through the last one," said research leader Boris Worm, from
Dalhousie University in Canada.
This
century is the last century of wild seafood
Steve Palumbi
Should fish be off the menu?
Send us your comments "What we're highlighting is there is a finite
number of stocks; we have gone through one-third, and we are going
to get through the rest," he told the BBC News website.
Steve Palumbi, from Stanford University in California, one of the
other scientists on the project, added: "Unless we fundamentally
change the way we manage all the ocean species together, as working
ecosystems, then this century is the last century of wild
seafood."
Spanning
the seas
This is a vast piece of research, incorporating scientists from
many institutions in Europe and the Americas, and drawing on four
distinctly different kinds of data.
For
the complete article go to:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6108414.stm
FISH Mystery solved...it gets to show you that the OCEAN still holding many secrets or surprises...
The
FISH Mystery is solved...
© Photo Lee Goldman -
Carpet Eel
Blenny Dottyback!
Hi
Gunther,
the mystery is solved! I have identified the fish I photographed at
Donsol. A very reclusive, cryptic fish that is not seen very often.
It looks like an ell, but it's not. It looks like a blenny, but
it's not. What is it? Of course, it's the Carpet Eel Blenny
Dottyback! Dottyback? Aren't they the small cryptic reef fish that
often have amazingly brilliant colors? Yes, that's them and this
guy is the 'blacksheep' of the family. Not only is he very cryptic
in their morphology, but at up to 45cm long, they are easily the
largest. Well, another new one for me and happy to say that after
almost 20 years of exploring the world's oceans, I can still be so
easily entertained :)! ...and YOU are so right Lee