Alotta Fagina wrote:
You wrote:

We like fish. They're tasty, good for you and catching them is good
sport. We'd hate to see them disappear from the Earth's waters in our
lifetime, as a recent meta-analysis in Science magazine suggested could
occur. The four-page paper looked at trends across various regions from
different sources and concluded that if present trends continued, the
total collapse of fisheries around the world could occur by 2048.

Science magazine: the people who brought you the coming Ice Age and the
famine that would kill half the world's population by 1999.

Some people make their living selling doctored nude pictures of Monica
Belluci; some do this ****.

Read on, Fagina. The WSJ expresses doubt about the Science Magazine
projection but
notes that fishery stocks are declining throughout much of the world.

Resources can be used up and disappear. Much of Europe has been
deforested entirely.
I'm sure many people would be surprised to learn that a couple of
thousand years ago there a *lot* of subtropical forests in (Judea,
Palestine, Israel, the Holy Land...whatever you care to call it). When
they talk about the "cedars of lebanon", they aren't referring to a
total of two trees. Lack of conservation and/or lack of vision beyond
the immediate needs of a present generation resulted in the permanent
loss of forest lands and much of the associated topsoil. If we wait
until the damage is done, so that we can say "OK, now we believe, we're
willing to accept the total disappearance of a resource as evidence
that it is being mismanaged", it's then too late.

The management of fishery stocks is pretty important to the world
economy, and of no small concern to recreational boaters who enjoy
hooking up with a decent fish once in a while. Many people go boating
primarily to go fishing, so the health of the resource and how it may
be managed on an international or commercial basis should be a
legitimate concern for many recreational boaters.