[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.

[discostu]

Exactly. My favorite was a couple of years ago when everybody first started noticing declining breeding in the human population. First instinct of all the environmentalists was that it was polution affecting our fertility, it took months before anybody pointed out that it might just be the result of 30 years of panic about over population. Never occured to these guys that the propoganda they'd been spreading for decades might actually have worked. Fill in your own joke about the relationship between their ZPG propoganda and polution.