Seven Billion Reasons for a Fisheries Collapse
Sharon LaFraniere’s article for the New York Times, Empty Seas, is subtitled Europe Takes Africa’s Fish, and Boatloads of Migrants Follow. It’s another well documented piece about world fisheries collapsing and the roundup of suspects is (as usual) greed, politics (greed in another form) and overfishing.
Sharon LaFraniere’s article for the New York Times, Empty Seas, is subtitled Europe Takes Africa’s Fish, and Boatloads of Migrants Follow. It’s another well documented piece about world fisheries collapsing and the roundup of suspects is (as usual) greed, politics (greed in another form) and overfishing.
But the world has always been greedy.
The facts seem simple to me, seen from the unscientific perspective of the commentator, that the true cause of collapse is too many people eating fish.
Well, duh! What would I have them eat, turkey-loaf instead?
That’s not the point. The point is, when I was a kid there were three billion people in the world and fishing was a viable livelihood for peop…