Mini Good News | July 31, 2009 | 4 comments

Fish stocks recover in CA, Northeast US and Iceland as conservation measures take effect, analysis s

source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/30/fishing-stocks-recover

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Global efforts to combat overfishing are starting to turn the tide to allow some fish stocks to recover, new analysis shows. Research from an international team of scientists shows that a handful of major fisheries across the world have managed to reduce the rate at which fish are exploited.

The experts say their study offers hope that overfishing can be brought under control, but they warn that fishermen in Ireland and the North Sea are still catching too many fish to allow stocks to recover. Some 63% of assessed fish stocks worldwide still require rebuilding, the scientists report.

"Across all regions we are still seeing a troubling trend of increasing stock collapse," said Dr Boris Worm, an ecologist at Dalhousie University in Canada. "But this paper shows that our oceans are not a lost cause. The encouraging result is that exploitation rate, the ultimate driver of depletion and collapse, is decreasing in half the 10 systems we examined. This means that management in those areas is setting the stage for ecological and economic recovery. It's only a start, but it gives me hope that we have the ability to bring overfishing under control."
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4 comments // Fish stocks recover in CA, Northeast US and Iceland as conservation measures take effect, analysis s

  • masterzip
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      masterzip  

    • Fishing is still banned in all areas of Northern California, we have not had a decent trout or salmon season for 2 years, and the crab season which is supposed to last 6 months starting around thanksgiving is now about 1 week over the past 5 years due to everything being gobbled up in 7 days. In Monterey(which used to be the sardine capital of the world) has still yet to recover form the massive overfishing form the 1930s and 1940s.
      the proof is in my local market,...not taking a few samples from the ocean...

    • 2 years ago
  • jmsrmy
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      jmsrmy  

    • Interesting opposing perspective to the following article: "Unpopular Unfamiliar Fish Species Suffer From Becoming Seafood" posted in Current by myself.

    • 2 years ago
  • bansheewail
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      bansheewail  

    • Conservatives are supposed to be Conservationist by definition, right? But, the only proven way for natural resources to be protected is through regulation via government intervention. How do they justify this contradiction in terms??? One can easily argue that ultra-liberals "conserve" more than Neo-Conservatives. Let's go fishing!!!

    • 2 years ago
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