Illegal Fishing Crackdown: Trans-Atlantic Pact Targets 'Other Piracy': By Michael Scott Moore This indeed is under-reported problem of enormous magnitude, African fishermen can't catch enough fish to make a living because of the enormous ships coming from the West. This deal has the potential to become something really good.
I hope we can get China and Japan to sign on to this. China in particular will go pretty far distances to get its fish.
I am glad (so far) that someone hasn't suggested that the fishing industry isn't over regulated. Fish are a natural resource and overfishing can cause terrible damage to fish populations. The industry needs to be preserved...along with the fish.
Let's not omit mentioning pollution and global warming as two major factors in the decline of marine stocks. Oh crap, where'd the US and EU support for preserving fish stocks disappear to ? ' It ain't our fault ', they wheedle, ' it's pirates like the Africans '.
ALways cute that moon blames the west for any problem, even if its poor pirates attacking commercial cargo ships ( note they do not attack fishing ships)
Moon, you need to get your act together... Scientific research is relatively new on all of this -- what concerns me most is the increasing ocean acidification. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification I can tell you that at least the EU is trying to do something about it. European Project on OCean Adicification http://www.epoca-project.eu/
Its funny how the west "fights" against all these problems that they have created. fighting against global warming too, right? oh wait a minute, who is the prime reason of this global warming issue? yeah, you guessed it right, west. west makes me..
Yes,... You are really clever -- there are no factories in Turkey. Turkish citizens don't pollute the air or the water. LMAO! Turkey's Accession to the European Union: Keep on dumping raw Turkish waste in the Mediterranean!
The western Atlantic bluefin tuna stocks remained relatively stable until the 1970s as their value soared as sushi, sashimi, and fresh steaks in international markets, particularly in Japan, fishing effort by the U.S. and Japanese longline fleet in the Gulf of Mexico dramatically increased. Western Atlantic bluefin tuna spawning stock biomass (a measure of the amount of fish able to reproduce) steadily declined from 1970 to 1992. Since then it has fluctuated between 21 and 29% of the 1970 level. The Japanese floating cannery ships nearly decimated shrimping in the Persian Gulf in the 1970s.
Just as long no one stops me from going on my annual trip to maine where I go out and spear a baby whale and club it over the head and consume it's still beating heart raw before dumping the rest to the lobsters.
... SiliconMagician, this is illegal and I'm guessing you are kidding because if you would do that your sister would be very angry with you.
Yes, acidification, pollution, global warming- all interconnected to deliver a knockout blow to Mankind's aspirations . I'm still working on Act 2.
