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Originally Posted by Libertine
Just a thought... maybe they included the third world, which has far less regulations, few of which are ever enforced, in their study? And maybe, just maybe, what the actual article in Science says about the effects of the collapse of certain species on life in the sea as a whole, is something that also, in the long term, influences those areas which are regulated as well?
Just guessing here...
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major fisheries that account for the vast majority of seafood that is consumed world wide - salmon, cod, pollock, flatfish (halibut, flounder, sole etc) and crab - with very few exceptions like shrimp in asia and whitefish in south america for example, are almost non-existent in the 3rd world. thats why i am saying that its impossible to suggest that one day fish will just dissapear due to overfishing... its the developed world that regulates these fisheries and do so more and more each year.
thats why i don't see how "seafood" can be looked at as a single object of concern... since pacific salmon fisheries, the health of the stocks, historical averages etc has no connection to greenland halibut. to make the arguments they are making, you would have to look at everything, completely out of context.