Saturday and I start my restful weekend with a tune by Cream, Tales Of Brave Ulysses…..
(Pause here for a musical interlude)
Fish….that is the subject of today’s post…….
We have been told for many years the the Mediterranean diet is the best diet if one wanted to be good and healthy……lots of fiber with vegetables and such and of course a steady diet of fish……
Good advice from everything I have read on this subject……but there may be a slight hiccup in this plan…..
Global overfishing might be much worse than previously thought, Discovery reports. A new study finds that UN figures have vastly understated the problem and that yearly fish hauls are declining three times faster than realized. According to the study, the UN—using numbers from the Food and Agriculture Organization—stated that global fishing peaked in 1996 at 86 million metric tons, but the researchers say it was actually closer to 130 million metric tons. Since then, the study claims the total amount of fish caught has declined by 1.2 million metric tons per year—not 0.4 million metric tons as the UN had said, the Guardian reports. “Our results indicate that the decline is very strong and is not due to countries fishing less,” study author Daniel Pauly says. “It is due to countries having fished too much and having exhausted one fishery after another.”
The study, which was published Tuesday in Nature Communications, is based on a decade of work by 400 researchers around the world. The numbers used by the UN come from the self-reporting of more than 200 countries and territories, and governments might not always be inclined to give accurate fishing counts, notes the Guardian. Researchers undertook a “Herculean task” to get more accurate counts for the years from 1950 to 2010, says one professor not involved with the study. “The world is withdrawing from a joint bank account of fish without knowing what has been withdrawn or the remaining balance,” Pauly tells Discovery. And while the Food and Agriculture Organization disputes the study’s new numbers, it does agree with its conclusion that countries need to improve their reporting, according to Science.
The best way to crap on anything good is to make it a fad or a trend……
Can you imagine what your seafood meal will cost when the fish are in short supply? Oh well back to Bugles and Peanut Butter…..
Is there a possible way to reverse this trend……there is one that I found……
Source: One Fish Two Fish, No Fish: Rebuilding of Fish Stocks Urgently Needed | Inter Press Service
Please let me know your thoughts…….
Go! Enjoy the start to your weekend…….
No doubt too that fish populations are being diminished by acidic waters resulting from global warming
But there is no global warming…Righties are telling us….BS
No diet is better than any other diet unless one follows it rigorously and faithfully. I know people who have gotten just as fat on the Mediterranean Diet as they have on a diet of milk shakes and candy bars.
I use the same diet I have always used….eat reasonably…..
I just realized you have been missing…..I hope all is okay…..have not seen you in my reader lately…..chuq
Had it up to here with the platform. Who knows what the future may hold — Thanks for noticing.
I have had no problems so I will stay here….are you back on Blogger?
http://www.jliming.com/
Oh crap….wrote before I read….sorry about that….chuq
More evidence of the overcrowding of the planet we are witnessing; the rats have filled the cage, and there’s nobody to open the door out…
SIGH…. Don’t fret about the price of fish; by the time it is an issue, the economy will have collapsed, anyway… & money won’t matter any more…
gigoid
How convenient. since you don’t believe in it…..
I’ll take the money and fly…planet 9…grok grok 😉
In sooth, I DO grok, which only means ‘complete understanding’ in Martian…. I don’t believe in the delusion/illusion of money; I do believe it has a deleterious effect on human nature… so, you can have all my money, as long as I get to ride along to planet 9… I’m assuming you’re referring to the new planet they may have found in the solar system… If you want to go, you’ll have to wait until they know where it is….
Grok that, milady…
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gigoid, the dubious
For me I do not eat fish so matters not to me…>LOL
You’re missing out on some good shit; as a chef, I can tell you there are a few seafood dishes to die for…. Scampi, lobster, sole dore, cioppino… You probably only saw it deep fried… unless you’re allergic, which can definitely turn off one’s appreciation for it….
Sigh, ah, memories… I made a pot of paella once that other student chefs were fighting over to get the last bowl…
🙂
gigoid
Nope allergic….I will cook it for others….
Speaking of ffish…….
http://www.newser.com/story/219267/by-2050-our-oceans-will-hold-more-plastic-than-fish.html
Aye, a complete arse fuck…. And, let’s not even talk about what chemicals are in the plankton, which is the bottom of the food chain on Earth…. Whatever gets into that gets into us ALL… mercury, lead, DDT… all there now, in the fish, and eventually, in us….
SIGH….
And then there is these new light bulbs with mercury and they will go to landfills…how long before it leeches into the water table? chuq
Reminds me of a story about Black Mollies that I cannot find but found a reference to it in a blog: “Yet I read a short story some time ago that has stuck with me. It’s about black mollies—not particularly touchy-feely pets, but valuable to some.
In the story, a man comes home from work to find his whole tankful of black mollies have mysteriously died during his absence. When he goes to the pet store to replace them, he learns that they all died overnight. They’ve become extinct. Then he becomes aware of other creatures disappearances. Soon, the newspapers begin publishing the extinct species of the day. But still, no one knows what started the cascading series of extinctions.
In a final plot twist, we learn that the enzyme that produces vitamin K—essential to blood coagulation—has gone extinct. Our black mollie owner/protagonist decides there’s nothing he can do about it, so he goes fishing. As he sits in the boat waiting for a bite, he thinks about how screwed the human race is. Whenever a woman has a baby, he thinks, the bleeding will not stop, so she and the baby will both die. Maybe it’s inattention that leads him to prick his finger on a fish-hook. Who knows. Our last glimpse of him shows us a man, sitting in a boat, bleeding to death one agonizing drop at a time.”
http://faithanncolburn.com/wordpress/2014/10/13/black-mollies/
{What started the cascade was over-fishing of Krill – tiny shrimp. It was, in the story – essential to the production of Vitamin K in mammals.}
Philip Wylie’s ethics/imperatives for species survival: 1. Live and Reproduce. 2. Do nothing that endangers the reproduction of your species. 3. Avoid endangering the reproduction of other species, as it might endanger your species’ ability to live and reproduce.
Very dry but Wylie thought all the ethics or guides one needed to be a good individual in your species could be drawn from those 3 rules. Grin
All great laws to live by…..thanx….chuq
Ned,how lovely….
I eat fish only occasionally…..:(
I remember being in Turkey on a boat…and this man a Turk…was fishing little fish from the sea and he put them alive on the small barbecue behind me!….and I flinched….Barbarian Turk….I don’t eat much fish…once in a blue moon..
No,I am not about to turn into a vegan…..though I do not eat red meat..I likes my chicken free range of course..just once in a very blue moon. 🙂