Actually releasing live back to the sea may be bad. Upsets the
ecosystem.
hmm, pond perhaps, but sea is too vast and the number of less than
ten or more i think wouldn't scatch even a bit.
it may on the contrary help the ecosystem, considering the
already unbalance ecosystem.
Oceans' fish could disappear
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/TechandScience/Story/STIStory_527868.html
NEW YORK - THE world faces the nightmare possibility of
fishless oceans by 2050 unless fishing fleets are slashed and
stocks allowed to recover, UN experts warned on Monday.
'If the various estimates we have received... come true,
then we are in the situation where 40 years down the line we,
effectively, are out of fish,' Pavan Sukhdev, head of the UN
Environment Program's green economy initiative, told journalists in
New York.
A Green Economy report due later this year by UNEP and
outside experts argues this disaster can be avoided if subsidies to
fishing fleets are slashed and fish are given protected zones -
ultimately resulting in a thriving industry. The report, which was
opened to preview on Monday, also assesses how surging global
demand in other key areas including energy and fresh water can be
met while preventing ecological destruction around the
planet.
UNEP director Achim Steiner said the world was 'drawing down
to the very capital' on which it relies. However, 'our
institutions, our governments are perfectly capable of changing
course, as we have seen with the extraordinary uptake of interest.
Around, I think it is almost 30 countries now have engaged with us
directly, and there are many others revising the policies on the
green economy.'
Environmental experts are mindful of the failure this March
to push through a worldwide ban on trade in bluefin tuna, one of
the many species said to be headed for extinction. Powerful
lobbying from Japan and other tuna-consuming countries defeated the
proposal at the CITES conference on endangered species in
Doha.
But UNEP's warning on Monday was that tuna only symbolises a
much vaster catastrophe, threatening economic, as well as
environmental upheaval. One billion people, mostly from poorer
countries, rely on fish as their main animal protein source,
according to the UN. According to the UN, 30 per cent of fish
stocks have already collapsed, meaning they yield less than 10 per
cent of their former potential, while virtually all fisheries risk
running out of commercially viable catches by 2050. Currently only
a quarter of fish stocks - mostly the cheaper, less desirable
species - are considered to be in healthy numbers. -- AFP
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