No more fish in 40 years.

[Spino]

I think aquaculture is the only way to go here, really. We may not like the taste of farm-raised salmon as much as wild salmon, etcetera, but we are eating ourselves into oblivion. Every medical study I've seen says essentially the healthiest diet you can eat is fish and vegetables. Maybe a little starch and a little chicken. But not much. We should be eating beef and pork no more than once every few weeks. Obviously, as more people start switching over to fish as opposed to beef, we're going to put a terrible strain on the sealife population that exists wildly.

We domesticated cows, pigs and the lot thousands of years ago. It's time our husbandry catches up to our dietary science. That being said, as a big seafood fan, I really hope they can learn to start breeding for taste. Wild seafood really does taste better.

You can have my pork chop when you pry it from my cold, dead hands...

[BDC]

Anyway farmed fish use even more resources than wild ones. Where do you think a farmed fish's food comes from?

[Don Corleone]

You can have my pork chop when you pry it from my cold, dead hands...

You keep eating them and that day might come sooner than you'd like.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

No more fish in 40 years.

Well if I live that long good. I hate fish.

But really does anyone here believe that there will be no more fish in 40 years? Heck we know less about the oceans than we do of the moon.

[whyidie]

Last time I was out on a reef in the South Pacific it was pretty grim. Don't think that was due to overfishing though, as the reef I was on had recently (5 years) suffered from massive bleaching due to increases in water temperature.

[IRONxMortlock]

But really does anyone here believe that there will be no more fish in 40 years? Heck we know less about the oceans than we do of the moon.

Yes, I do believe we will devastate our oceans if we continue to abuse them in the way we currently are. Things are not going to fix themselves and there's no hidding from this, we need to take responsibility for the kind of world our children are going to inherit. I'd like them to live in a healthy one and hopefully a world in better condition than the state I found this one in.

Last time I was out on a reef in the South Pacific it was pretty grim. Don't think that was due to overfishing though, as the reef I was on had recently (5 years) suffered from massive bleaching due to increases in water temperature.

I've also seen plenty of evidence of this first hand. Coral reefs are rapidly disappearing due to increasing water temperature and poisoning. Although reefs occupy only one tenth of a percent of the ocean they contain more than 25% of the marine species and are a vital breeding ground for all kinds of animals. It certainly wouldn't surprise me if the loss of these habitats will also greatly contribute to the loss of wild fish as a commercially viable food source.

[Ironside]

Well if I live that long good. I hate fish.

But really does anyone here believe that there will be no more fish in 40 years? Heck we know less about the oceans than we do of the moon.

Let me put it this way. If we scapped domestic animals and farming and sustained ourself on hunting and gathering of wild plants, how long would we survive?
And somehow it's surpricing when the sea cannot give unlimited fishing, when we are doing the exact same thing there? Fish-farms is they way to go (although I agree that fish doesn't taste good).

[Fragony]

That is just dumb, more sea less fish, intelligent design my derriere.