Archive for November 5th, 2006

Study: 90% of the ocean’s edible species may be gone by 2048

Posted in Ecological Collapse, Political on 11/05/2006 09:20 am by admin

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Updated 11/3/2006 7:44 AM ET
By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY
Oversight of commercial fishing must be strengthened or there may eventually be no more seafood.

That’s the conclusion of a report in today’s Science journal that predicts 90% of the fish and shellfish species that are hauled from the ocean to feed people worldwide may be gone by 2048.

Even now, 29% of those species have “collapsed,” meaning a 90% decline in the amount being fished from the sea, said Boris Worm, lead author and a professor of marine conservation biology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada.
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