Tuna’s Last Stand
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Tuna’s Last Stand
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#2> “All industrial fisheries, with very few exceptions, are ultimately drained of life after a certain time,” says Daniel Pauly, a University of British Columbia fisheries biologist. “They increase and push, push, until they collapse. Why should skipjack tuna be any different?”
There you have it.
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#3This is a fascinating article, but I'm bookmarking it for the unreadable graphs. It will be a great example for future presentations.
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#4This is a fascinating article, but I'm bookmarking it for the unreadable graphs. It will be a great example for future presentations.
That is an interesting insight. I would like to learn more about making graphs that communicate well.
Can you share some specifics about how these graphs are unreadable, and how they can be improved?
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#5This is a fascinating article, but I'm bookmarking it for the unreadable graphs. It will be a great example for future presentations.
That is an interesting insight. I would like to learn more about making graphs that communicate well. Can you share some specifics about how these graphs are unreadable, and how they can be improved?
Uhm... did you look at them? They both use very very similar shades of blue for all of the series which makes them impossible to distinguish.
The second graph is a little better but even in that one the very similarly coloured blue lines cross each other so you have to really look closely to figure out which is which.
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#6This is a fascinating article, but I'm bookmarking it for the unreadable graphs. It will be a great example for future presentations.
That is an interesting insight. I would like to learn more about making graphs that communicate well. Can you share some specifics about how these graphs are unreadable, and how they can be improved?
the first graph is completely useless, how can you distinguish between all these similar shades of light blue?
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is an interesting insight. I would like to learn more about making graphs that communicate well. Can you share some specifics about how these graphs are unreadable, and how they can be improved?
the first graph is completely useless, how can you distinguish between all these similar shades of light blue?
If you're on a non-touchscreen device then there is a hover-over pop-up with the fish name and tonnage caught.
That still doesn't cut it: there are 18 fish in the graph key but at first glance the graph has around half that number. The others can be seen if you zoom right in but it's still not easy to hover over the pixel-wide slivers of similar blue.
That said I don't think the tonnage details are the point of this graph but rather a more general message: "Tuna fishing increased 6-fold over 65 years, skipjack makes up most of the increase". I think it communicates this message well. Perhaps more "infographic" than "graph"?
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is an interesting insight. I would like to learn more about making graphs that communicate well. Can you share some specifics about how these graphs are unreadable, and how they can be improved?
Uhm... did you look at them? They both use very very similar shades of blue for all of the series which makes them impossible to distinguish. The second graph is a little better but even in that one the very similarly coloured blue lines cross each other so you have to really look closely to figure out which is which.
The second graph links to datawrapper.de. The shades of blue appear to be the default palette in that application. It wasn't a stylistic choice "blue because fish".
I tried one of datawrapper's sample data sets, "Gender pay gap" and added a couple of extra columns. The resulting line graph has four shades of blue.
https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/g98Jd/1/
(There are "base color" and "customize colors" buttons so the author could have changed this. Seems like a nice little app).
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#9Are fisheries guilty? Are regulators and governments guilty?
I think the guilty side are end-consumers, particularly in rich countries, people themselves and their lifestyle (ex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_food#Impact)
note: I haven't eat a gram of fish or meat since more than a decade (mostly because I don't feel the need, being already full with local products: fruits, plants, legumes, rice
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#10> “All industrial fisheries, with very few exceptions, are ultimately drained of life after a certain time,” says Daniel Pauly, a University of British Columbia fisheries biologist. “They increase and push, push, until they collapse. Why should skipjack tuna be any different?” There you have it.
It is about the "tragedy of the commons", not any specific feature of industrial fishing. Indeed, where industrial fishing has assigned property rights, like with fish farming, there are no issues with systemic collapse.