"There is no fish in the ocean": The future has arrived in this Indian fishing village

[Recursion]

https://qz.com/india/1804562/for-indias-karnataka-fishermen-climate-changes-just-barren-sea/

Jan. 18, 2020. It is a hot Saturday afternoon in Sasihithlu, a small fishing village in southern Karnataka. At 12:30pm, the sun is directly above us, glaring through a largely cloudless sky.

Surya Salian, 62, gathers his cast net for a final throw. He enters the still blue water until it is waist-high. He swings his arm and throws the circular net. It forms a shimmering translucent circle in the air for a few seconds, then drops into the water. After a few minutes, he pulls it out. It has one small fish, a silver biddy, wriggling. He throws it on the white sand, next to three other fish caught a short while ago.

“This might be the year of famine for us,” he said, after a moment.

Jan. 19, 2020. It is balmy and breezy at 4am in the Arabian Sea. A purse seiner, a big boat that goes out about 15 nautical miles into the ocean to catch Indian oil sardines, is ready to head out. Most of the crew on the ship is from Odisha, Jharkhand, and Andhra Pradesh. They left because their land did not offer them a living, and they arrived here, on the west coast, in south Karnataka, working on big fishing boats, hoping for a better life. After six hours, the ship returns, empty-handed. The crew members earn nothing for the day.

Since August 2019, fishers across the spectrum, from the small-scale ones to owners of giant trawlers, echo a similar lament. There are no fish in the ocean. Although the official fish catch data for 2019-20 will be released only after March 2020, officials from Central Marine Fisheries of India (CMFRI) have confirmed that there has been a significant decline in fish catch since the post-monsoon season.

[Submariner]

1. Of course there are no fish

With all the spawning populations fished out to commercial extinction, the surviving fish are not able to adapt to 90+ degree water temperatures.

Take the hint and move away from the Gulf now, because the daily 115 degree temps now will be in the 130 degree range in the next decade or two. Your fish are gone guys, time to move on.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Plus serious levels of pollution and acidification. I live on the coast of Maine, and while

our land temps won’t be like theirs, we are likewise seeing a shift in our marine habitat which bodes ill for our fishermen, state, and planet.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. As the ocean dies, so do we.

But at least the tv will keep us up to date on the latest celebrity gossip.

[hatrack]

4. Gosh, if only someone had warned about overfishing and acidification and pollution!

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[dalton99a]

5. +1

[k2qb3]

6. It's certainly an interesting time to be alive...

I wonder how to prepare my kids to live in the world that will result from the BOE, especially with the biosphere under this much stress already.

Permaculture is the best I've been able to come up with, but I suspect it won't be nearly enough.

The old world is going to get crazy fast, we're somewhat insulated in NA.

A lot of stuff starts to make sense if you assume world leaders expect a climate catastrophe near term. The US and Russia are in positions of relative advantage.