Should the sea be left for at least 7 years to recover.?

Question

from over fishing etc!

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

every natural system like sea and river has it's own recovery system. The time of recovery will vary depending on damage. In our present stage it can recover immediately. However, if damage is more in future it may not happen.

Answer 3

A nice thought, but quite unlikely to happen.  Too many people need access to the sea and its harvest to survive.

Answer 4

No fishing should just be regulated.

Answer 5

In that case, men should be left by the sea at least 7 million years to recover (actually re-create!)!

Answer 6

The oceans should be regulated. People right now have an incentive to overfish because they do not have to pay for the loss to future fishing stocks. If you give them an incentive to care - such as having tradeable property rights - they will take better care of the ocean. Your standard moral hazard.

For example, you are more likely to litter in the park (which you do not own and assume someone else cleans up) than in your own backyard (which you own and you have to clean up). This is the same for the oceans.

Creating a way for people to be incentivize to take care of the oceans will in the end be better for the oceans and create a long term solution rather than a short term 7 year solution.

Answer 7

I think that's an outstanding idea.  It simply isn't feasible.  The joint global effort and the far reaching economic impacts this would have take this option off the table.

I think the best alternative is to establish the ocean equivalent of the Kyoto Protocol.  Ideally this would offer sweeping protection to numerous sea life and fish stocks; eliminate various forms of harvesting (bottom trawling for example); make significant areas of the seas off limits for a number of years (Grand Banks, Barring Sea, Great Barrier Reef, etc.); and offer economic incentives and sanctions to enforce the protocol -- impacting countries that even opted not to get on board.

So if Japan still decides they still want to go out and harpoon a few whales for "research" fine.  Just keep in mind that every country that signed the protocol is now going to slap a 50% tariff on every automobile and piece of electronics that comes out of Japan for the next two-years.  Lets see if their economy is really that excited about whale meat after two weeks of that.

While not as perfect as a seven-year moratorium, I think this is a workable plan.  It think it also takes steps to protect the economic integrity, history and vitality of strong sea based centers around the world ranging from Seattle to Perth.

Hope this helps.

Answer 8

be left to recover? I don't think it can recover itself in this stage. I think she needs our help, and right now, we are not helping.

Action, not -just- words.

Answer 9

Oh yeah! like murdering an old denizen of the sea like the old whale recently killed. People survive from the sea, but greed destroys the good of the blessed sea.

Answer 10

That would be nice, but Pollution is also damaging the sea. Off the coast of many coastal cities there are dead zones where nothing can live, this is caused by run off from farms and lawn fertilizers, causing the red algae to Bloom and it takes all the oxygen out of the water killing all the animals.

Answer 11

90% of Humans live within three miles of a Coastline,River,Lake.

6billion and doubling sooner than we want or had planned.

Little chance that it can be given 7 years to 'recover' It could happen, worth an effort.

Answer 12

Yeah, absolutely. 29% of all fished species are below 90% of their natural population and have, in fact, collapsed. If you keep fishing more then reproduces the numbers of fish will decline and give less off-spring.

When they are up to their natural state we humans can get a lot more fish. It's like having an interests account: If you withdraw more then your interest every year the account will diminish. The interest will be lower and so the amount of money that can be withdrawn each year, until tere's no money left. Several big fish populations have vanished and, although given time, they haven't recovered. It is estimated that by 2048, the oceans will virtually run out of seafood. It is better to let the them replenish now than not having any fishes left to restore the populations.