Posted on 05/17/2010 10:50:46 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK (AFP) – The world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050 without fundamental restructuring of the fishing industry, UN experts said Monday.
"If the various estimates we have received... come true, then we are in the situation where 40 years down the line we, effectively, are out of fish," Pavan Sukhdev, head of the UN Environment Program's green economy initiative, told journalists in New York.
A Green Economy report due later this year by UNEP and outside experts argues this disaster can be avoided if subsidies to fishing fleets are slashed and fish are given protected zones -- ultimately resulting in a thriving industry.
The report, which was opened to preview Monday, also assesses how surging global demand in other key areas including energy and fresh water can be met while preventing ecological destruction around the planet.
UNEP director Achim Steiner said the world was "drawing down to the very capital" on which it relies.
However, "our institutions, our governments are perfectly capable of changing course, as we have seen with the extraordinary uptake of interest. Around, I think it is almost 30 countries now have engaged with us directly, and there are many others revising the policies on the green economy," he said.
Collapse of fish stocks is not only an environmental matter.
One billion people, mostly from poorer countries, rely on fish as their main animal protein source, according to the UN.
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Then the most reliable use for the New York Times (wrapping fish) will have vanished.
Where is Chief Inspector Dreyfus when you need him?
Remember that these folks aren't being paid to find nothing. And, if they say "Yup, all clear. Everything's fine.", then they're all out of work.
Unfortunate that the papers always fail to mention that little fact.
That makes the fish too dizzy to procreate.
overfishing is an extremely serious environmental issue.
I’m sad to see people dismissive of it here.
Unfortunately the leftists have cried wolf over so many bogus issues that when a real issue comes along people don’t take it seriously.
I noticed that this has become one of the Left's recent favorite euphemisms. I suppose they imagine it sounds less threatening than "nationalization" or "communization"--which is exactly what it means.
UN “experts” could f*** up a cup of coffee. Why does anything they say carry any influence whatsoever?
We need more vegans in the world. Except that we need to turn crops into fuel.
Man needs to just kill himself off to save the planet!
Notice that Barack Obama called it “healthcare reform” instead of “healthcare restructuring”.
Economic reforms would have included tort reform. The goal was to subvert the system by nationizing healthcare, not reducing costs or expanding coverage.
Dey Vorld . She Iss gonna hend!
Yeah, and the population bomb was going to collapse civilization by 1990. UN be damned.
FUBO
We reap what we sow.. I would agree that some areas have been decimated by the technologies used.. time will tell.
Out of fish? The ocean isn’t a restaurant with a limited supply. Sorry sir, we’re out of the Red Snapper. May I suggest the Blackened Tilapia?
Somebody tell the UN that fish reproduce.
Filling the gaps created by ClimateGate, I see. Somehow I bet Algore’s fingerprints are on this one, too.
LOL!!!
Or Obama could release his long-form birth certificate ...
Marking my calendar.
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