UN: Oceans’ Fish Could Disappear in 40 Years

[Hissyspit]

Source: AFP

Oceans’ fish could disappear in 40 years: UN

By Agence France-Presse
Monday, May 17th, 2010 -- 1:43 pm

The world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050 without fundamental restructuring of the fishing industry, UN experts said Monday.

"If the various estimates we have received... come true, then we are in the situation where 40 years down the line we, effectively, are out of fish," Pavan Sukhdev, head of the UN Environment Program's green economy initiative, told journalists in New York.

A Green Economy report due later this year by UNEP and outside experts argues this disaster can be avoided if subsidies to fishing fleets are slashed and fish are given protected zones -- ultimately resulting in a thriving industry.

The report, which was opened to preview Monday, also assesses how surging global demand in other key areas including energy and fresh water can be met while preventing ecological destruction around the planet.

UNEP director Achim Steiner said the world was "drawing down to the very capital" on which it relies.

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[aquart]

1. Oh, I think we're killing them faster than that.

Which is going to be a real problem when we want to eat.

[conspirator]

2. We can always go fish off the coast of Somalia. Nobody ever fishes there

So it must be loaded.
Those who say other nations don't dump their waste there should be the first to eat the fish.

[WinkyDink]

3. Changing capitalism? NEVER GONNA HAPPEN. WE WOULD RATHER BECOME EXTINCT.

We can't even get JAPAN to stop killing whales, dolphins, and sharks.

[liberal N proud]

4. Compliments of BP, that should accelerate

:sarcasm:

[ej510]

5. My people extinction theory seems more realistic everyday.

[Iliyah]

6. And

extinction for most of the animal kingdom as well. Most of the living creatures will be gone, what are the wingnuts going to hurt?

The oil industry feels no pain nor shame b/c it's all about money honey.

[FLPanhandle]

20. I don't know about extintion, but mass starvation and much reduced numbers are inevitable.

It's going to be ugly and it's going to happen in my children's lifetime.

[damntexdem]

7. What, do they really think that they'll last that long?

Hey, the BP gusher will take care of a good portion of them.

[Lorien]

8. We are breeding our way to extinction

and that's the one truth no politician will touch.

[theHandpuppet]

10. You said it!

Hell, you can't even have a rational discussion of that topic even here on DU.

[Trillo]

11. Au contraire,

reports of tax deductions for children are frequently discussed.

[The Stranger]

18. We can and will. There is no other choice.

[FLPanhandle]

13. Uh oh, you are mentioning the elephant in the room

People are supposed to ignore or deny that there are already too many people for the Earth to sustainably support.

[paparush]

22. DING! . . F_CKING DING!!!

[CrispyQ]

9. "...fishless oceans by 2050 without fundamental restructuring of the fishing industry."

What about the 7 billion life forms that are consuming the fish? Can we have a discussion about that?

[Octafish]

12. Fuhgedaboudid. Wake me up when the plankton croak.

Then we'd have a problem, with most of the forests gone and all.

http://www.wisegeek.com/where-does-atmospheric-oxygen-come-from.htm

[Karenina]

14. Dey be croakin' alright!

:hi:

[Joanne98]

15. I'd be really surprised if they last that long.

[Barrett808]

16. A child's garden of overfishing news:

http://www.desdemonadespair.net/search/label/overfishing

[The Stranger]

17. OVERPOPULATION is the biggest problem we face on the planet.

Please -- someone, anyone -- stop the world, I want to get off.

[FLPanhandle]

19. and about 4 billion others need to get off too.

I go too if only there was someplace to go.

[Ter]

21. BS

They will be here long after people.