All seafood will run out in 2050, say scientists [Run for your lives.]

The Telegraph (Britain) ^ | 03NOV06 | Charles Clover, Environment Editor

[familyop]

"I'm convinced. It's time to kick the asians out of our ocean."

I would be more for kicking them into the ocean to help replenish fish stocks, but they don't have much meat on their bones. We need to find a locale with higher rate of human obesity to feed more fish, IMO.

[SunkenCiv]

Someone conch you on the head?

[familyop]

"Someone conch you on the head?"

Maybe that's it! ...sometimes leads to wet dreams, you know.

[Vaquero]

since the early 80's, thanks to national limits on certain species, the Northeast stocks of sport fish has, in my estimation, increased many fold.

Now let me put in the caveat. These are what are called inshore species and not those regulated by international treaty, but it is true there are more, bigger, healthier, Striped Bass, bluefish, fluke, flounder than ever before. This is reflected in the local fishing journals and other papers.

Here in the NY,NJ,CONN area the water is cleaner than ever do to anti-dumping regulations.

This, I reiterate is only a personal observation.

[mo]

....UNLESS you give me money now!!!!!

[dmw]

Just for the halibut lets assume this story is true, this is gonna give us fish eaters one big haddock!

[familyop]

Ah...here we are.

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Wet Dream
by Kip Adadda

It was the 41st of April, being a quadruple leap year.
I was driving through downtown Atlantis.
My Barracuda was in the shop, so I was in a rented Stingray, and it was overheating.
I pulled off into a Shell station.
They said I'd blown a seal.
I said, "Fix the damn thing and leave my private life out of it, okay pal?"

While they were doing that I walked over to a place called "The Oyster Bar" -- a real dive.
But I knew the owner -- he used to play for the Dolphins.
I said "Hi, Gil!" You have to yell, he's hard of herring.
Gil was also down on his luck.
Fact is, he was barely keeping his head below water.

I bellied up to the sandbar.
He poured me the usual -- Rusty snail, hold the grunnion, shaken, not stirred.
With a peanut-butter and jellyfish sandwich on the side -- heavy on the mako.
I slipped him a fin - on porpoise.
I was feelin' good. I even dropped a sand dollar in the box for Jerry's squids.
For the halibut.

Well, the place was crowded.
We were packed in like sardines.
They were all there to listen to the big band sounds of Tommy Dorsal.
What sole.
Tommy was rockin' the place with a very popular tuna, Salmon-chanted evening,
And the stage was surrounded by screaming groupers -- Probably there to see the bass player.
One of them was this cute little yellowtail, and she was giving me the eye.
So I figured this was my chance for a little fun.
You know, piece of pisces.
But she said things I just couldn't fathom.
She was too deep. Seemed to be under a lot of pressure.
Boy, could she drink. She drank like a- She drank a lot.

I said "What's your sign?" She said, "Aquarium."
I said, "Great! Let's get tanked!"
I invited her up to my place for a little midnight bait.
I said, "C'mon, baby, it'll only take a few minnows."
She threw me that same old line, "Not tonight. I've got a haddock."

And she wasn't kidding either, cause in came the biggest, meanest looking haddock I'd ever seen come down the pike.
He was covered with mussels.
He came over to me, he said "Listen, shrimp, don't you come trollin' around here."
What a crab. This guy was steamed. I could see the anchor in his eyes.
I turned to him, I said "A-balone. You're just bein' shellfish."

Well, I knew there was going to be trouble, and so did Gil, cause he was already on the phone to the cods.
The haddock hits me with a sucker punch.
I catch him with a left hook. He eels over.
It was a fluke, but there he was, lyin' on the deck, flat as a mackerel. Kelpless.
I said, "Forget the cods, Gil, this guy's gonna need a sturgeon."

Well, the yellowtail was impressed with the way I landed her boyfriend.
She came over to me, she said "Hey, big boy, you're really a game fish. What's your name?"
I said, "Marlin."
Well, from then on, we had a whale of a time. I took her to dinner. I took her to dance.
I bought her a bouquet of flounders. And then I went home with her.
And what did I get for my trouble?
A case of the clams.

[SunkenCiv]

:') Reading that, I had not a garum the world.

[pepperhead]

Who cares if our fish supply runs out, we can just switch to some good and healthy soylent green!!!!!!!!

[Brilliant]

I betchya seaweed will still be around.

[Peter W. Kessler]

Please pass the tartar sauce.

[familyop]

":') Reading that, I had not a garum the world."

...didn't even notice the sad melodies from the fiddler crabs?

[sayfer bullets]

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And remember...Tuesday is Soylent Green day.

[Dallas59]

Wasn't this supposed to have happened in 1999...or so predicted in 1970...

TUESDAY IS SOYLENT GREEN DAY!

[SunkenCiv]

Maybe they wouldn't be sad if they'd come out of their shells.

[metesky]

Malthusian BS, assuming that the human mind is stagnant and will never come up with an answer other than government intervention.

[Thrownatbirth]

Man can survive on steamed crabs and beer.

[6SJ7]

Prof Callum Roberts, of the University of York, who was not involved in the study, said: "The animals and plants that inhabit the sea are not merely embellishments to be wondered at..."

... they are also tasty when broiled with bread crumbs and butter.

[Brilliant]

And it's better for you, too.



I've said many times that all of the world's environmental problems can be easily solved. All you've gotta do is reduce the world's population by about 75%.

[familyop]

"Malthusian BS, assuming that the human mind is stagnant and will never come up with an answer other than government intervention."

I agree. Socialists spout that stuff and expect us to be floundering.