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They're responding to people who buy fish, which is most people, so it's less "Global Fishing's" and more "Humanity's Exploitation of the Ocean". The maps look
by spodek 9y ago
They're responding to people who buy fish, which is most people, so it's less "Global Fishing's" and more "Humanity's Exploitation of the Ocean".
The maps look like a comment on our population growth, or a call to reduce that growth if we don't want nature to reduce it for us. Eating more plants instead of fish and other forms of efficiency could help too, but may forestall the inevitable if we keep growing.
- Retric 9y agoYou can also farm fish, so it's more fisherman exploitation than simple demand for fish.
- usrusr 9y agoMany fish farms are just converters from one kind of fish (that is caught in the wild but isn't popular in the supermarket) into another kind of fish (one of the popular carnivorous ones).
- mirimir 9y agoIndeed. From https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X16305516 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X1... > Finally, comments are presented on the proposition that aquaculture will overtake wild capture fisheries in terms of food production, notably because current aquaculture requires huge quantities of wild-caught fish as feed. Indeed, this emphasis on aquaculture-as-substitute for fisheries raises issues of food security and malnutrition in developing countries, from which much of the fish used as feed originates.
- bjelkeman-again 9y agoTrue, but there are fish, like tilapia that feed on plants instead and are easy to farm.
- zokier 9y ago> They're responding to people who buy fish, which is most people I wonder what percentage of the catch ends up for human consumption. I got a (possibly completely unfounded) feeling that it is not very big figure.