Wednesday, March 21, 2007

The global fish crisis

"Saving the sea's bounty"
It is the terrible title about our enviroment...which is come from National Geographic magazine.
Let me tell you what's happening about it:
" The oceans are in deep blue trouble.From the northermost reaches of the Greenland Sea to the swirl of the Antarctic Circle, we are gutting our seas of fish. Since 1900, many species may have declined by nearly 90 percent, and it's getting worse. Nets scour reefs. Supertrawlers vacuum up shrimp. Nation flout laws.
The crisis announces itself on the bare table of a family in Senegal, in the shrinking enrollment of an elementary school in a seaside village, on restaurant menus and in the languid drift of bycatch tossed overboard with casual indifference. In the following three stories, we examine the net losses balanced against the meager gains. First, the breadth and depth of the problem as epitomized by the massacre of the majestic bluefin tuna. Then the saving grace of a marine reserve in New Zealand, stubbornly propelled into existence by a biologist who insists that what is needed is a new ocean ethic--one that demands we see the ocean not as a commodity, but as a community in which we all have stake. Finally, the slow strangulation of a fishing village in Newfoundland, a cautionary tale in which the collapse of cod in turn diminishes a livelihood and way of life passed down from generation to generation. "

Crisis about our oceans, cirsis about our future ...........

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