A new article was released on October 6, 2009 on the growing amount of worldwide fishing and possibly overfishing. It is said that fishing catches throughout the world have grown by 400 percent between 1950 and 1994 and that global production leveled off in 1988. There seems to be a similarity between the fishing market and the financial market. Both can collapse after certain points and both are difficult to predict when these certain points are going to occur. However, both show signs and warnings and both have a very hard time recovering from a collapse. 63 percent of fish stocks are incredibly low and it has been predicted by Canadian marine ecologist Boris Worm that commercial fisheries will die off around the year 2048 if overfishing is not stopped.
People have been eating fish for decades and the first commercial fishing fleet shipped out from Northern Europe around 950 A.D., changing the way people caught, ate and even thought about fish. These fleets lead to commercial fishery's that began in about the 1800s.The problem with genetics is also raised in that it takes less time for a single genetic trait to spread widely throughout a small population, therefore, once a breed is dramatically shortened, it will take a very long tim, if at all, to increase the numbers to what they were before.
This article makes me think of all the changes that have come with the twenty-first century. It seems as if everything has started fall all at once and people are finding it hard to find places to turn. I just hope that something can be done about this awful situation because we really do not need to make another breed of anything become extinct.
Kaycey Cook
11:05 pm
10-07-09
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/translating-uncle-sam/stories/overfishing-are-there-really-plenty-of-fish-in-the-sea
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