[discostu]

Well the initial drop in the catch is what spurred major growth in farming. Now farming is having a major impact on catching because farmed fish are so much cheaper. Like always the environmentalists are stuck with their heads in the past, they know at one point we were catching less because we were running out of fish to catch, and are assuming (incorrectly) that's still the cause.

[biblewonk]

Well the initial drop in the catch is what spurred major growth in farming. Now farming is having a major impact on catching because farmed fish are so much cheaper. Like always the environmentalists are stuck with their heads in the past, they know at one point we were catching less because we were running out of fish to catch, and are assuming (incorrectly) that's still the cause.

It's like pointing out that the harvest of wild turkey has declined horribly since the pilgrams. This can only mean that wild turkeys have become near extinct. This is how they push global warming also. They report on one data point without bothering to show the whole picture.

[cogitator]

Now farming is having a major impact on catching because farmed fish are so much cheaper.

There are only a few species for which farming has demonstrated success. The big pelagics (swordfish, bluefin tuna, marlin) aren't candidates.