'Only 50 years left for sea fish'

[John Gulliver]

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'Only 50 years left' for sea fish

[B]

worryingly bad news... but not a surprise... very sad though..

B x

[SoggyFox]

and without doubt the fishing industry will claim if theres only 50 years left we'd better increase quota's now so the fisherman can make money before the stocks run out.

oh and i forgot the bit where the fishermen claim its all non-sense and everythings really ok.

[MATTBIN]

Looking on the bright side, isnt that's 50 years of commercial fishing, there will still be small stocks, presumably eaking out a life on wrecks etc for us to continue to look at, so not all bad news, as long as they can continue to bread and survive with the lower numbers of course.

Matt

[Sakara Drinker]

Saw this on Sky News this morning. But they said the report said the stocks would be gone by 2048. Who knows what to beleive, except it is pretty obvious that current fishing trends cannot continue.

[principia]

Would it make sense to kill all the whales that eat all the small fish and plankton and stuff? You know, less predation.

Jason

[chrisch]

Originally Posted by MATTBIN

Looking on the bright side, isnt that's 50 years of commercial fishing, there will still be small stocks, presumably eaking out a life on wrecks etc for us to continue to look at, so not all bad news, as long as they can continue to bread and survive with the lower numbers of course.

Matt

True but something like (IIRC) 20% of human food is sea fish. With increasing populations this means starvation for many in the less developed world.

I saw this on BBC World and they said 40 years....

But since the fishing industry is a bunch of greedy uncaring twats its not surprising. I think Soggy is about spot on....

Chris

[louigi]

a very sad state of afairs but dose this mean in reality that its fifty years till man disapears up his own arse. because boy dose the planet need us to.

Mind you we may just about to be heading there in the poor countries of the underdeveloped there going to starve to death. Due to over fishing but to negate that, in the overdeveloped industrial nations obesity is such that the fat lazy gits cant get of there arses to build the ships and equipment needed to plunder the sea so theyl sit there in there own wretched slime glued to their virtual fishing fleet on their playstation 3. and rot away with any luck. untill then our own greed is going to carry on ruining this planet.

[Julian Goffin]

Sureley this means that there should be more no go zones out there, same as around Milford Haven, they recon that the life there has recovered so well that there are now abundance of diffent species living together in harmony....... a bit like birmingham

[Jim Shaw]

Originally Posted by Julian Goffin

that there are now abundance of diffent species living together in harmony....... a bit like birmingham

pmsl !!!!, green on route