Did you hear about the end of salt water fish by 2048?

Question

Google: End of fish in 40 years.

Answer 1

it is true, not only over fishing, but warming waters will kill off a lot as well

Answer 2

I agree that overfishing of the oceans is a serious problem. But I think that report is being very alarmist and unrealistic.

Answer 3

I have spent the last 15 years sailing around the world, and I am still only half way around (maybe I should get a faster boat eh?)  I arrived in the South Pacific in 1999 and in 2003 and also 2005 spent the South Pacific cyclone season in the solomon islands. Just an incredible place, (you should check it out on google earth). I have never been anywhere as diverse. The fish and bird life is just incredible. We have sailied through 'boils' of tuna for hours and hours. Not just once but several times. Just amazing. I imagine that the Atlantic and

Mediterranean used to be like that 20 years ago. Anyway, after the recent 'unrest' there the E.U. and the Australians lent a hand with some very generous Aid packages....with some strings attached....with hooks on the end....Yep, they basically 'bought' the fish stock. I won't attach any links, you can check it out yourself and make your own conclusion. I have a friend that is a Solomon Islander that recently helped to complete a report for the WWF. I wonder how a similar document will read in 20 years time?

I feel that commercial fishing should be drastically cutback to allow the fish stocks to build up. I heard this morning that in a decade the chinese will be needing 200 million tons of fish a year. The sea is not a bottomless source of food. I think a major issue with large scale commercial fishing is not just the huge quantities that are taken but the 'by product' that is thrown back, and damage to the sea bed and coral.

One final point that I have mentioned on this site before but I feel it is worth bringing up as many times as I can. The concept of Dolphin safe Tuna as we understand it is a total joke. What do people think Dolphins eat? Tins of Dolphin food? The only Dolphin safe Tuna is the one in the sea that Dolphins can eat. Take it from me the Dolphins are starving to death out there. We may as well catch and eat them while they still have some meat on them....

  Commercial fishing is currently such a challenge that they use helicopters to look for birds diving into the water and just put nets around the area and take everything

So, what can be done? Dont catch fish . What will be done? Nothing..... ;=(

Answer 4

It's the same junk science as  (in fact this goes hand in hand with) global warming.

It has been estimated that there are between 15 and 18 thousand species of fish in the sea (and perhaps another 5000 still unknown).For each species, there may be billions of fish. Do the math.

Do you really think we can kill that many fish in 40 years?

This is brought to you by the same idiots that brought you global warming(except for Al Gore-he's still busy inventing the Internet).

For those old enough to remember, in the '70s global cooling was the issue-and extinction of fish due to frigid waters.