Posted on 05/17/2010 10:50:46 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK (AFP) – The world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050 without fundamental restructuring of the fishing industry, UN experts said Monday.
"If the various estimates we have received... come true, then we are in the situation where 40 years down the line we, effectively, are out of fish," Pavan Sukhdev, head of the UN Environment Program's green economy initiative, told journalists in New York.
A Green Economy report due later this year by UNEP and outside experts argues this disaster can be avoided if subsidies to fishing fleets are slashed and fish are given protected zones -- ultimately resulting in a thriving industry.
The report, which was opened to preview Monday, also assesses how surging global demand in other key areas including energy and fresh water can be met while preventing ecological destruction around the planet.
UNEP director Achim Steiner said the world was "drawing down to the very capital" on which it relies.
However, "our institutions, our governments are perfectly capable of changing course, as we have seen with the extraordinary uptake of interest. Around, I think it is almost 30 countries now have engaged with us directly, and there are many others revising the policies on the green economy," he said.
Collapse of fish stocks is not only an environmental matter.
One billion people, mostly from poorer countries, rely on fish as their main animal protein source, according to the UN.
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Suppose that might help? Or are useless bureaucrats indigestible?
lol.. I’d be happy to see them out of NY in 40 years.. who wants ‘em tho? nothing but a bunch of despots and free loaders .. and thugs
Don’t let Al Gorian get wind of this!!!
There are lot of other fish in the sea if you know what I mean.
The really good news is that in 40 years Pavan Sukhdev will have disappeared.
UN BS artists as usual, get them out of my country.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace
alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by
menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of
them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken
I wouldn’t want to try to digest one of those old farts.
Or not: Ingtar.
I have as much chance of being correct, probably more.
25 years ago, Ted Danson told us the oceans would be dead in 20 years.
I loathe Communist lies.
The oceans aren’t going to dry up, it’s far worse...
they are draining off the edge of the world.
What do YOU think is causing “the water shortage”?!!
It would accelerate the predicted extinction of all oceanic species---except for the sea-walking obamination, that super-special, one of a kind, godlike creature.
“We’re doomed!” - C3PO
- JP
Saving global fish stocks would cost 20 million jobs, says UN
Report says 13 million fishing boats must be retired to replenish stocks, with money redirected to retrain millions of workers
More than 20 million people employed in the fishing industry may need to be taken out of service and retrained for other work over the next 40 years if the final collapse of fish stocks in oceans around the globe is to be avoided, the UN warned today.
The UN’s environment branch, UNEP, gave a sneak preview of its green economy report that will be published in October. It said that if the world remained on its current path of over-fishing, by 2050 all fish stocks could have become uneconomic to exploit or actually extinct.
Pavan Sukhdev, who heads UNEP’s green economy initiative, said: “That is not as absurd as it sounds, as already 30% of the ocean fisheries have collapsed and are producing less than 10% of their original ability.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/17/saving-fish-stocks-cost-jobs
Yup. I think this comes under the concept of “what good is a study that says everything is fine.”? Unless the study predicts doom of some sort, it has failed, it was not worth the money, it should have never been done in the first place.
“UN Experts”: Ideologues masquerading as scientists. They always begin with a preferred “solution” and simply reverse-engineer the problem statement to match.
I thought it was the earth’s rotation speeding up. Blow drying the waters and such.
I could see it happening if they all become Gay Fish.
‘Greening’ global fisheries could boost fish stocks, new UN report says
17 May 2010 – An $8 billion investment annually in rebuilding and ‘greening’ the world’s fisheries could both increase fish catches and generate $1.7 trillion in long-term economic returns over the next four decades, according to a new United Nations report.
An influx to the fishing sector – with funding being covered by scaling down or phasing out the nearly $30 billion worth of subsidies in place currently – is needed to curb the excess capacity of the world’s fishing fleets while supporting workers in alternative livelihoods.
Funding is also vital to reform the management of fisheries through such policies as setting up marine protected areas to allow depleted stocks to recover and to grow, says the Green Economy report, whose preview version was released today.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=34717&Cr=&Cr1=
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