Goodbye Harry Ramsden
No more seafood. So says a new report. If current trends continue most of the worlds fisheries will be kaput by 2050. Of course, the current trend isn’t going to continue. Its gonna get worse. Already 29% of fisheries have ‘collapsed’. That means that the catch is now less than 10% of their original yield. So already a quarter of the worlds fish are gone. And by 2050 there will be none left worth mentioning. This isn’t scaremongering, its what’s gonna happen.
In great Britain we have a large coastline & own a lot of sea for our size. And guess how many marine reserves we have? One. At Lundy. Despite repeated warnings that the north sea fish stocks, particularly Cod, are in terminal decline the government has repeatedly refused to act. Saying they must protect our fishermen. Erm, no fish in 43 years Tony. How’s that for protection. But its OK because Green Tony is going to bring in a host of environmental taxes, and save the world by subsidising the big businesses that he’s selling our hospitals to.
And its not just no more prawns. Once a fishery collapses the biodiversity goes. Most of the other species die off. And, and this is just my thought, not mentioned in the government report, but isn’t the sea where most of our CO2 (responsible for global warming) gets turned into O2 (the stuff that we breathe)?
In great Britain we have a large coastline & own a lot of sea for our size. And guess how many marine reserves we have? One. At Lundy. Despite repeated warnings that the north sea fish stocks, particularly Cod, are in terminal decline the government has repeatedly refused to act. Saying they must protect our fishermen. Erm, no fish in 43 years Tony. How’s that for protection. But its OK because Green Tony is going to bring in a host of environmental taxes, and save the world by subsidising the big businesses that he’s selling our hospitals to.
And its not just no more prawns. Once a fishery collapses the biodiversity goes. Most of the other species die off. And, and this is just my thought, not mentioned in the government report, but isn’t the sea where most of our CO2 (responsible for global warming) gets turned into O2 (the stuff that we breathe)?
posted by Old Man Rich at 9:54 AM
5 Comments:
I live on a tiny island..and there is NO seafood here.
You'd think with the great big ocean out there we'd be fish eatin fools..
Nope
But he has energy-efficient fluorescent lightbulbs, isn't that good enough?
Interesting, but ooh, that reminds me--I need to check Jen's blog. Guess I'll have to start taking flaxseed oil instead of fish oil.
I saw that report too, I've been meaning to write something about it but it's too depressing. Plus I'm been completely obsessed with the election tomorrow (cross your fingers that some people who aren't maniacal lunatics get elected). I guess this means I need to stop eating salmon now too. Dammit.
your a fine one to talk,you used to keep loads of fish and they all died...bro
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