Any of us that love to fish have realized, instinctively, that fishing is in decline and that what we have lost in one generation, around the Straits, Sound, and out on the oceans, is a diminishing pie split among more and more people
This interesting article, by Science Daily, shows a bit more of the facts behind the belief. It’s real, and it’s getting worse.
‘No Fish Left Behind’ Approach Leaves Earth With Nowhere Left to Fish, Study Finds
ScienceDaily (Dec. 3, 2010) — Earth has run out of room to expand fisheries, according to a new study led by University of British Columbia researchers that charts the systematic expansion of industrialized fisheries.
In collaboration with the National Geographic Society and published in the online journal PLoS ONE, the study is the first to measure the spatial expansion of global fisheries. It reveals that fisheries expanded at a rate of one million sq. kilometres per year from the 1950s to the end of the 1970s. The rate of expansion more than tripled in the 1980s and early 1990s — to roughly the size of Brazil’s Amazon rain forest every year.
Read the whole story here.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101202181122.htm
