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
Remember that these folks aren't being paid to find nothing. And, if they say "Yup, all clear. Everything's fine.", then they're all out of work.
Unfortunate that the papers always fail to mention that little fact.