tuna fish gone in 2 years. - think on it - in 2 yrs. there will be no more Tuna

[ensho]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1170113/Tuna-wiped-2012-overfishing-stopped-say-environmental-groups.html


Tuna will be wiped out by 2012 if overfishing is not stopped, say environmental groups


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If current quotas are maintained, the breeding population of Atlantic bluefin tuna will have disappeared in three years, it is claimed.
The population can only be saved by a complete halt to fishing in May and June, when the fish swim to the Mediterranean to spawn, the WWF says.

-snip-

'Bluefin tuna is collapsing as we speak and yet the fishery will kick off for business as usual,' said Sergi Tudela, of WWF.

'It is absurd and inexcusable to open a fishing season when stocks of the target species are collapsing.'
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they will not stop fishing tuna - count on it.

oh well, tuna is full of murcury and toxins anyway. I stopped eating it yrs. ago.

sigh

[Lucian]

1. I stopped eating tuna...

when they were mixing it with dolphin meat (and rat feces).

This upsets me. How many species are we going to kill off before anyone does anything about it?

[phantom power]

3. No number of extinctions is going to stop us.

[snake in the grass]

17. Only our own extinction...

...will put an end to it and at the rate we are going this becomes more likely.

[Jack from Charlotte]

19. Mix the mayonnaise with the tuna. No. Feed the mayo to the tuna. (nfm)

*

[cobalt1999]

2. Almost all standard edible fish species will be gone in 30 years.

Think of it, a denuded ocean scrapped clean.

Too many people on this planet.

[global1]

4. Sorry Charlie........

[tekisui]

5. Dang, we have to quit eating tuna, or we'll have to quit eating tuna.

[Skink]

6. We'll save some DNA and regenerate the species later.

[flvegan]

7. Bad news for their predators, too.

Funny how people seem to think we're the only species out there.

We can all adjust our diets though, and do the world a favor.

[BurtWorm]

8. I'm running out to stock up on tuna right now!

Think how much it will be worth in two years!

:woohoo:

[HamdenRice]

9. A bit misleading. The article is about 1 variety of tuna, bluefin

Most of us who eat tuna from the can don't eat bluefin tuna, which is generally sold for very high prices in Asia.

We are more familiar with cheaper species like skipjack and albacore. They are severely overfished, but they are not going to disappear by 2012.

Also, if you look at the economic behavior of fishing fleets, they rarely fish out the last fish. At some point, the stock of bluefin will be so low, that no fishing boat will be able to make money fishing for it. It will become commercially extinct long before it becomes (if ever) biologically extinct. That's pretty much the situation with cod. Once one of the most plentiful fish for human consumption, it is almost impossible to buy in a fish market. But the fish is not near extinct. It just can't be caught in a commercially viable volume.

I agree with the overall policy analysis and prescription implied by the article -- we're about to cause these fisheries to collapse, maybe irretrievably -- but I think this kind of headline confuses what the bigger issue is, which is we are destroying the entire marine eco system in a way that it may not be able to recover from.

[tammywammy]

12. bluefin is a fatty tuna

Not the regular canned stuff, you're correct.

National Geographic did an interesting article, maybe 2 years ago, on the over fishing.

[sammythecat]

16. Very informative points there. n/t

[Mari333]

10. tuna farms

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,27574,25362406-2682,00.html

[wuvuj]

21. Takes about 6-8lbs of small fish from the ocean...

...to raise one lb of farmed tuna. Sealife that depends on this same food will be starving.

[Codeine]

26. Fish farming is ecologically nightmarish. nt

[anigbrowl]

32. So, apparently, is harvesting wild fish

But we could improve our fish farming methods.

[Vidar]

11. As a species, we suck.

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. We do indeed!

x(

[Mnemosyne]

35. And not in a nice way either.

:)

Seriously, we do suck, big time.

[bullwinkle428]

14. The Monterey Bay Aquarium has an excellent guide on

the types of fish that are considered safe as well as those that should be avoided.

http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/cr_seafoodwatch/content/media/MBA_SeafoodWatch_NationalGuide.pdf

A bit hyperbolic to imply that all tuna will be gone or even threatened within the next 3 years.

[hugo_from_TN]

15. I will bet you $100 that in 3 years I will be able buy fresh tuna.

[tammywammy]

18. This article is just on bluefin

Maybe people won't find that particular kind available, but there will still be tuna (including the regular canned albacore and my fav yellowfin).

[wuvuj]

22. You and the Japanese will be paying that much for a lb or so?

...

[tammywammy]

24. There will still be tuna but maybe not bluefin tuna n/t

[pipoman]

45. Yellow fin is very economical right now

I can buy it by the case for less than $3.00/lb.

[AngryAmish]

20. Why do people keep eating it?

This is crazy. I like to fish. I would never go fishing for an animal I knew was in trouble.

Eat something else, for crissakes. Eat some more in five years after they have recovered.

[tammywammy]

23. Because bluefin is very fatty and has a good flavor

There's a lot of demand for in Japan.

I agree, I wish they would stop fishing for it, I don't get bluefin.

[Ilsa]

25. Damn. Why the overfishing? Is this

another problem with overpopulation? Why can't the planet get serious about this?

[Codeine]

28. It's not overpopulation, it's eating patterns.

There can be voluminous amounts of food for all if we choose the right kinds of things to eat, but people prefer to eat the most damaging sorts of food in preference to sustainable agriculture.

[anigbrowl]

31. No, it's subsidies

I think there is nothing wrong with eating tuna. it's delicious - and should be priced according to supply, so that there is an incentive for the fishing intdustry to manage stocks properly. Instead, the EU has this dreadful subsidy system which has long encouraged overfishing (I'm european, btw), and European fisherman, who make up about 1% of the economy, wield way too much political power and start a big collective whine any time they're asked to deal with change - even though it's actually an extremely profitable and high-tech industry, and overall they have done very, very well for the last few decades. Propose new regulations or quotas though, and they march on national capitals acting as if they still laid out nets by hand and owned nothing more than the clothes they stood up in and some battered wooden dinghies. Fuck them.

What will happen, I predict, is that the tune population will in fact collapse, a total ban on tuna fishing will be initiated and enforced fairly strongly, fishermen will move onto other fish (amid much public grumbling), and stocks will recover to a surprising degree within 10 years, after which people will accept a sustainable managed solution. And in this case, my instinct is to let the fishermen go to the wall, and when they start complaining about the impossibility of catching as many fish as they want, say 'told you so'.

[HamdenRice]

33. Very well said

A combination of bad policy, greed, stupidity. Many fish populations have crashed, the fishing sector gone away and the fish stocks recovered -- like striped bass on the east coast of the US.

Hopefully the collapse will not be part of a larger marine eco system collapse or alteration that will be too big for tuna to recover from.

[anigbrowl]

37. I think it's a fine example of where protectionism leads

The fishermen in various EU countries have played on people's emotional reactions for a long time now. The best one I ever saw was a march of Scottish fisherman's wives on the UK Parliament - while their husbands were out at sea trying to make ends meet, the poor things. Of course the new regulations they were protesting had been in the pipeline for several years, and the husbands being out at sea meant there were no multi-million pound trawlers sitting in port for cameras to get footage of.

[rcrush]

27. I'm gonna buy the last can.

And then wait and sell it when I retire when everyone thinks its gone! I'll be rich!

[Leftist Agitator]

29. Kind of like these?

[wuvuj]

30. The only safe fish to eat now....

...are sardines....chunk light tuna...canned salmon....all of which are going UP in price.

Most other fish have high levels of mercury.

[mimitabby]

34. good grief did you read the moronic comments after the article?

I thought the population HERE was bad, but the sheer numbers of idiots posting to that news site are incredible.
as the wicked witch of the west said; "what a world, what a world, what a world"

[Iris]

36. I think "The Daily Mail" is a notoriously scuzzy paper. n/t

[RebelOne]

39. They may be a scuzzy paper, but the info about

the bluefin tuna is true. I am a copy editor for 30 U.S. outdoors magazines, but we have done many articles about the overfishing of tuna.

[Iris]

41. yes, I understand that they can still print articles that are correct. I was referring to the other

poster's observation about the comment section.

[MrPerson]

38. I can't stand tuna.

[LanternWaste]

40. Delete...

delete

[onethatcares]

42. as long as they hold out til Dec 22, 2012

things will be just fine. sheesh, if you've eaten one tuna, you've eaten them all. :hide:





psst, i'm kiddin.:hi:

[JuniperLea]

43. Dominoes...

One falls, then the next, and the next, and so on, and so on, and so on...

[kaygore]

44. Go vegan! It better your health anyway!