Doesn’t look like fish is going to feed our expanding population.

>>Since 1950, the number of boats has gone from 1.7 million to 3.7 million, even though fish stocks have crumbled.<<

>>The increase in fishing vessels, however, did not happen evenly across the globe. While fish stocks in most of North America, Europe and Australia have stabilized in recent decades due to more stringent regulations, that’s not the case in much of the rest of the world. Fleets in Asia, for example, have increased by 400 percent over the same time period, reports Jen Christensen at CNN. And the number of fishing boats hitting the water won’t decrease anytime soon—the study estimates that by 2050, another 1 million fishing boats will be chasing fish.<<

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/twice-many-fishing-vessels-are-chasing-fewer-fish-worlds-oceans-180972294/

PermeateFree said:

Doesn’t look like fish is going to feed our expanding population.

>>Since 1950, the number of boats has gone from 1.7 million to 3.7 million, even though fish stocks have crumbled.<<

>>The increase in fishing vessels, however, did not happen evenly across the globe. While fish stocks in most of North America, Europe and Australia have stabilized in recent decades due to more stringent regulations, that’s not the case in much of the rest of the world. Fleets in Asia, for example, have increased by 400 percent over the same time period, reports Jen Christensen at CNN. And the number of fishing boats hitting the water won’t decrease anytime soon—the study estimates that by 2050, another 1 million fishing boats will be chasing fish.<<

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/twice-many-fishing-vessels-are-chasing-fewer-fish-worlds-oceans-180972294/

Hasn’t looked good for quite a while now.

roughbarked said:

PermeateFree said:

Doesn’t look like fish is going to feed our expanding population.

>>Since 1950, the number of boats has gone from 1.7 million to 3.7 million, even though fish stocks have crumbled.<<

>>The increase in fishing vessels, however, did not happen evenly across the globe. While fish stocks in most of North America, Europe and Australia have stabilized in recent decades due to more stringent regulations, that’s not the case in much of the rest of the world. Fleets in Asia, for example, have increased by 400 percent over the same time period, reports Jen Christensen at CNN. And the number of fishing boats hitting the water won’t decrease anytime soon—the study estimates that by 2050, another 1 million fishing boats will be chasing fish.<<

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/twice-many-fishing-vessels-are-chasing-fewer-fish-worlds-oceans-180972294/

Hasn’t looked good for quite a while now.

A WiseMan once stated that; “Enough Is Enough.”
(sensing that his ability to state something of such import
with such an economy of words made me want to get close
enough to glean other such pearls he’d dine to casually drop.)

I reckon what he meant was that blind greed was the recipe for disaster.

Catching ENOUGH fish to feed your family & community was ENOUGH.
Making bigger nets and larger boats to turn a profit and thus become rich
by harvesting fish far beyond their capability to reproduce would end badly.