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That's definitely a claim but I assure you no human being has a clue of how to manage the ocean - it's kind of ludicrous. And by the fact that the ocean is so

• colechristensen 4y ago
  That’s a bit excessive. No human knows how to manage fish populations?
  • steve_adams_86 4y ago
    We aren’t managing to do it yet. Even here in Beautiful British Columbia, Canada, we are doing an abysmal job and constantly shifting goal posts to claim we’re succeeding. I used to believe it until I began reading salmon reports and various population studies for species like rockfish and lingcod, key commercial species. Our definition of sustainable is essentially “not completely shitting the bed”. We’re supposed to be a model of sustainability. I don’t have much faith. We’re also talking about sustaining populations that have already been decimated in the last 150 years. Let’s not pretend the numbers we’re trying to hit resemble anything like healthy. It’s an incredible disservice to ourselves and future generations to pretend industry standards for sustainability are anything more than an excuse to squeeze more juice out of a dried up fruit.
  • PeterisP 4y ago
    No human knows how to solve global coordination, i.e. if some countries switch to be sustainable and some others don't, the former pay the costs, but the latter gain a signficant benefit as their immediate catches simply increase (as fish don't care about borders). We don't have a "world government" that can practically impose binding restrictions on anyone in cases that don't go so far as where military violence makes sense.
    • colechristensen 4y ago
      >fish don't care about borders Plenty of fisheries are indeed quite local, and managed responsibly. Likewise some aren't.