According to a report in today’s issue of the journal Science, if trends of overfishing and pollution continue, just about all the world’s seafood populations will be gone by 2048.
From the Associated Press:
While the study focused on the oceans, concerns have been expressed by ecologists about threats to fish in the Great Lakes and other lakes, rivers and freshwaters, too.
[Lead author Boris Worm of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia]…and an international team spent four years analyzing 32 controlled experiments, other studies from 48 marine protected areas and global catch data from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization’s database of all fish and invertebrates worldwide from 1950 to 2003.
The scientists also looked at a 1,000-year time series for 12 coastal regions, drawing on data from archives, fishery records, sediment cores and archaeological data.
The solutions suggested by the researches include better management to prevent overfishing, tighter controls on pollution and new marine reserves.
Posted: 11/3/2006 10:54:34 AM