Widespread Fish Consumption Drives Fears of Empty Oceans by 2050

[Eddie Teach]

You're assuming Mono's pop didn't get a scholarship. 

[Martinus]

I need my Omega acids. And by 2050 I will probably have 10 or 15 more years to live, tops. So fuck off, Tim.

[Jaron]

It would be oddly satisfying if we somehow managed to EAT an entire species.

[Eddie Teach]

Like the dodo?

[Monoriu]

It would be oddly satisfying if we somehow managed to EAT an entire species.

When I watched Jaws, I kept thinking of eating shark's fin. 

[Martinus]

It would be oddly satisfying if we somehow managed to EAT an entire species.

Some posters could probably manage that by themselves.

[Berkut]

Like the dodo?

IIRC, we didn't really even eat the dodo, supposedly they didn't taste very good.

Mostly just killed them because people were bored, or were killed by introduced predators.

[Siege]

Timmay, not that crap again.
Another lefty conspiracy theory.

[grumbler]

Like the dodo?

IIRC, we didn't really even eat the dodo, supposedly they didn't taste very good.

Mostly just killed them because people were bored, or were killed by introduced predators.

I think people confuse the dodo with the passenger pigeon (which was eaten in vast numbers)

[Eddie Teach]

IIRC, we didn't really even eat the dodo, supposedly they didn't taste very good.

They may not have been considered a delicacy, but the remoteness of their habitat made them an acceptable meal for hungry sailors.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Most of the world is not a well developed, low corruption, first world western nation like Canada.

Ah, the well-developed, low corruption, First World Western nation that destroyed its own cod fisheries.

[crazy canuck]

Certainly there are fish stocks that have been over fished and need management but others, like our salmon runs, have had some record numbers in the last few years.  Not so sure about this article.

Most of the world is not a well developed, low corruption, first world western nation like Canada.

They are fishing like there is no tomorrow.

Frankly, the risk of acidification of the oceans is a far greater risk than fisherman from non developed countries.

[grumbler]

I thought that, in the Timiverse, we were all going to be killed by Ebola long before 2050.

[derspiess]

I think people confuse the dodo with the passenger pigeon (which was eaten in vast numbers)

I bet the passenger pigeon was delicious.

[KRonn]

I think people confuse the dodo with the passenger pigeon (which was eaten in vast numbers)

I bet the passenger pigeon was delicious.

I'm amazed that a bird as widespread as passenger pigeons were able to be made extinct by humans. It's like trying to make sparrows or robins extinct - I think it'd be damn hard to do. But I think certain traits of the pigeons made it easier to trap/capture large numbers, probably that they flew in large flocks and were captured en masse.