Widespread Fish Consumption Drives Fears of Empty Oceans by 2050

Started by jimmy olsen, January 28, 2015, 06:54:06 PM

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Tonitrus

#30
January 29, 2015, 01:58:56 PM
Quote from: derspiess on January 29, 2015, 01:03:15 PM
Quote from: grumbler on January 29, 2015, 10:07:10 AM
I think people confuse the dodo with the passenger pigeon (which was eaten in vast numbers)

I bet the passenger pigeon was delicious.

Like Gerald Ford.  :(

derspiess

#31
January 29, 2015, 02:06:50 PM
Quote from: KRonn on January 29, 2015, 01:44:13 PM
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.

Supposedly they were very social birds, to the point where if the flock got small enough they'd just stop breeding.  And with mass deforestation in the late 1800s (which has now been replenished, and then some) their habitat got demolished.  Also, they were pretty easy to hunt.

They have a big exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo here that explains it all and lays on the guilt trip.
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Martinus

#32
January 29, 2015, 02:08:08 PM
To celebrate this thread I just ate a tuna and salmon salad.

Ed Anger

#33
January 29, 2015, 03:55:12 PM
Quote from: grumbler on January 29, 2015, 12:36:56 PM
Timiverse,

What a hellish existence. Full of spelling errors and reposted articles.

the suicide rate would be huge.
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Admiral Yi

#34
January 29, 2015, 04:01:57 PM
Quote from: Martinus on January 29, 2015, 02:08:08 PM
To celebrate this thread I just ate a tuna and salmon salad.

Salmon is mostly farmed these days.

Martinus

#35
January 29, 2015, 04:20:24 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 29, 2015, 04:01:57 PM
Quote from: Martinus on January 29, 2015, 02:08:08 PM
To celebrate this thread I just ate a tuna and salmon salad.

Salmon is mostly farmed these days.

I shop at a good spot that sells wild salmon.

Razgovory

#36
January 29, 2015, 04:31:54 PM
So you are giving your money to Vlad?
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

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Josquius

#37
January 29, 2015, 04:33:33 PM
Not really news. The rising price of eel in Japan and cod in the UK have been recurring news stories for donkies of years. Still worrying.
Science needs to get going with producing vat grown fish- has to be easier than vat grown steak, right? maybe? no basis but I hope so...
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jimmy olsen

#38
January 29, 2015, 09:03:00 PM
Quote from: Siege on January 29, 2015, 10:05:58 AM
Timmay, not that crap again.
Another lefty conspiracy theory.
It's simple math.

There are X number of fish in the world. If they are killed faster than they reproduce than they will go extinct.
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#39
January 29, 2015, 09:05:39 PM
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#40
January 29, 2015, 09:06:28 PM
Quote from: Tyr on January 29, 2015, 04:33:33 PM
Not really news. The rising price of eel in Japan and cod in the UK have been recurring news stories for donkies of years. Still worrying.
Science needs to get going with producing vat grown fish- has to be easier than vat grown steak, right? maybe? no basis but I hope so...

Do you measure years in donkeys?
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Ed Anger

#41
January 29, 2015, 09:08:03 PM
Coal piles
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Eddie Teach

#42
January 29, 2015, 09:10:40 PM
I'm wondering about this conspiracy theory business. Who stands to benefit from the world running out of fish?  :hmm:
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mongers

#43
January 29, 2015, 09:12:31 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on January 29, 2015, 09:06:28 PM
Quote from: Tyr on January 29, 2015, 04:33:33 PM
Not really news. The rising price of eel in Japan and cod in the UK have been recurring news stories for donkies of years. Still worrying.
Science needs to get going with producing vat grown fish- has to be easier than vat grown steak, right? maybe? no basis but I hope so...

Do you measure years in donkeys?

Since a pony is 25 then a donkey's probably about 12.5, so Tyr is suggesting a minimum of 25, perhaps 37.5 or more years.
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mongers

#44
January 29, 2015, 09:13:27 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on January 29, 2015, 09:10:40 PM
I'm wondering about this conspiracy theory business. Who stands to benefit from the world running out of fish?  :hmm:

The Joker, or perhaps Batman is behind it?  :ph34r:
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