Only 50 Years Left for Fish in Seas

Do you have any links to the actual study and not just a news posting. I am very interested in the actual study since the media always uses false or exagerated scientific studies. I am not saying this is false, but I make my opinions on the studies not the news stories. I have been searching and not coming up with anything so far.

 

Science Magazine will charge you US$10 for the complete article.
David
Science 3 November 2006:
Vol. 314. no. 5800, pp. 787 - 790
DOI: 10.1126/science.1132294

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Research Articles

Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services

Boris Worm,1* Edward B. Barbier,2 Nicola Beaumont,3 J. Emmett Duffy,4 Carl Folke,5,6 Benjamin S. Halpern,7 Jeremy B. C. Jackson,8,9 Heike K. Lotze,1 Fiorenza Micheli,10 Stephen R. Palumbi,10 Enric Sala,8 Kimberley A. Selkoe,7 John J. Stachowicz,11 Reg Watson12

Human-dominated marine ecosystems are experiencing accelerating loss of populations and species, with largely unknown consequences. We analyzed local experiments, long-term regional time series, and global fisheries data to test how biodiversity loss affects marine ecosystem services across temporal and spatial scales. Overall, rates of resource collapse increased and recovery potential, stability, and water quality decreased exponentially with declining diversity. Restoration of biodiversity, in contrast, increased productivity fourfold and decreased variability by 21%, on average. We conclude that marine biodiversity loss is increasingly impairing the ocean's capacity to provide food, maintain water quality, and recover from perturbations. Yet available data suggest that at this point, these trends are still reversible.

[size=-1]1 Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 4J1.
2 Department of Economics and Finance, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA.
3 Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth PL1 3DH, UK.
4 Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, Gloucester Point, VA 23062–1346, USA.
5 Department of Systems Ecology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, SE-106 91 Sweden.
6 Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, SE-104 05, Stockholm, Sweden.
7 National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA.
8 Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA 92093–0202, USA.
9 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Box 2072, Balboa, Republic of Panama.
10 Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA.
11 Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
12 Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4. [/size]

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bworm@dal.ca </FONT>

 

yea I found the entire article for free here http://myweb.dal.ca/bworm/#_Publications%20
at the bottom is the article in pdf format.

But I still want to see the actual study, I am trying to convince people over here that we need a marine park and I need all the information I can get.

 

Here in New Jersey, sport fishermen are organised and are pushing for an increaese in the annual take in these ( costal ) waters.

 

Dr Worm posts his e-mail address in there at the end for people wanting further information. I printed the four page version, but I think I'm going to need YankNBurn or Cynical Otter to help me with all these big words.

I think what he's saying is, in the words of Farley Mowat, "The living world is dying in our time." (Mowat, Rescue the Earth, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1990, page 24)

David

 

Maybe these sport fishermen should sail up the pond to Newfieland. Maybe the Newfies will say it's all them Spanish and Portuguese bastards fault, thems the one's what took all our fish. Lots a fingers pointing one way and the other. But every time you point a finger, check your hand. You got three fingers pointing back at you.

Geez, them sport fishermen don't catch enough, they'll go short on cash and not have gas for their Mercedes. Kinda breaks your heart, don't it?

 

Ocean, Ms.
Ms Ocean passed away violently and in great pain Thursday night, May 3, 2048, following a long illness. Cause of death was massive necrosis in all her ecosystems due to a parasitic infection by a landbased primate, Homo sapien sapiens. Ms Ocean was 448,419,782 years old. She is survived by her husband, Terra Firma, who is now suffering from the same parasite, and numerous offspring.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the church, mosque, or Buddhist temple of your choice.

 

http://www.yptenc.org.uk/docs/factsheets/env_facts/overfishing.html

This link will help you to realize why overfishing is a problem. Fishing boats nowadays are floating factories that also process the fish. They are using smaller nets as the stocks go down and the majority of the fish caught are thrown away as "bycatch". With advances in radar the stocks of fish are easier for them to find.

The inaction of our goverment with regards to all these matters pisses me off, they expect industries to self-regulate which will never happen.

I'm glad I went veggie and don't have to deal with this karma, land dwelling creatures should'nt be fucking with the ocean....

 

here in japan i'm often amused by articles in the english newspaper titled 'marine interests at stake'. it appears that they get most of their fish from foreign countries now, what with the whole rape-of-the-ocean thing.

they've demonstrated a remarkable inability to bend their culture to accomodate environmental issues, so we can expect the very efficient death machine known as commercial fishing to carry out this 50 year prophecy. quite a downer.

to make up for the sickening feeling of knowing that we were single handedly responsible for destroying the planet's most rad ecosystem, we can have a good laugh at the japanese, who will suddenly find themselves sushi-less. but it will be a laugh at our own failure, too.

 

If you are in fact ethnic Japanese, as opposed to a Westerner living there, thanks for the contribution. I hope you can contribute to the anti-whaling lobby there, if there is one.

Here in Canada, the government has cancelled the registration of the Sea Shepherd anti-whaling vessel, Farley Mowat, apparently for offending orientals who enjoy murdering whales.