Wow, those are some crazy numbers. Shocking it could happen that fast... what's next?
I'm eating as much delicious sushi grade tuna I can before it's gone.
It's already full of plastic and mercury, so still might not be a great idea
Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs
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Re: Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs
#42The Seattle Times joined followed a carb boat in April of 2022.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/into-t...
The captain's take on the issue includes climate change, over crabbing areas known to be struggling and trawling. The article also includes an explanation as to how cod could be responsible due to climate change offering less ice protection for the crab.
Re: Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs
#43The overfished. Simple as that. Snow crabs have been becoming smaller and smaller because the biggest ones were not living that long anymore. It happened to cod fisheries in eastern Canada and it is happening everywhere until it's too late.
COD, the fish that changed the world. Amazingly well written book. Apparently Cod used to be MUCH larger than it is today. for the same reason, they dont grow very old.
Many fish were much larger in the not so distant past. Marlin in Caribbean used to be huge compared to todays catch. Pictures from the 1950's and earlier, you see some just massive Marlin. They're big today but nothing like how they used to be. But we have a whole lot more people on the Earth today.
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If humans don't buy them they have no value and may as well be extinct anyways.
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#45Something similar happened to the cod fishing industry in Newfoundland and other parts of eastern Canada 30 years ago. The reason: overfishing, due in large part to technological advances. Here's what happened: Canada and NAFO continued to overestimate the abundance of cod in the Atlantic Ocean and therefore continued to set dangerously high [Total Allowable Catches]. This was in large part due to the widespread prac…
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#47I don't like how they keep blaming climate change, even though that doesn't seem to be what happened here. We just had one of the best seasons for crab fishing; does CBS expect us to think climate change in the last year ruined this season? Much more likely is disease, some new techniques in crab fishing that over harvested the sea, or random deviation.
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#49Check out Dana (Donella) Meadows Lecture: Sustainable Systems (Part 2 of 4) - 2013
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> Our ability to change the earth for the worse exceeds our willingness to change ourselves for the better.
Jack up the cost of carbon so that willingness to change increases and the relative cost of lower carbon options becomes more attractive. Right now we are effectively subsidizing our collective suicide by not internalizing externalities. It’s nuts.