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Great to see that conservation efforts are not all doom and gloom, the thing that surprised me the most is that the US seemed to really be ahead of the curve on
by rtpg 13y ago
Great to see that conservation efforts are not all doom and gloom, the thing that surprised me the most is that the US seemed to really be ahead of the curve on this one.
I wonder how Asia'll deal with this. I always hear about some salmon varieties being way too overeaten/overfished in Japan, and I have a hard time seeing how the government will convince local fishermen to cool their jets.
- _delirium 13y agoSomething similar has been playing out in ICCAT [1], where the U.S. has been pushing for lower tuna quotas recommended by the NOAA as the sustainable yield, but Japan has kept them from going through. [1] International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, but widely referred to derisively as the International Conspiracy to Catch All Tuna
- jaegerpicker 13y agoThe US is actually quite a bit ahead on serval conservation efforts related to wildlife. The only real areas that the US misses on is energy usage and that is mostly due to a few groups of very well funded groups that stand to lose their cash cows. So they are working hard to stop green energy movements.