July 30, 2004
7/30 - Sorry, Charlie: Tuna on the run in the Pacific
"Island nations took a step toward sustaining the fishery last month, when a new treaty took effect to regulate tuna fishing in the western and central Pacific, the last major ocean area without a regime -- however flawed -- for managing fish stocks.
The United States, Japan and other fishing powers have yet to accept that Pacific pact, however. Needy island governments, meanwhile, are opening their waters to still more major appetites -- the Spanish, French and other European fishing countries, whose formidable tuna fleets already have depleted stocks in the Atlantic and have moved into the Indian Ocean." (Check out the story...)
Overfishing might lead to TinyFish.
Combine Overfishing with global warming (see SB blog post "Seabirds Take a Major Dive") and we might need a "No Fish, No Birds PSA."
No Fish, no birds, no food, no money.
Are we going to see a baseline shift with the seabirds like we've seen with the blue whales?
The last 10 days have a lot of bad news (Acid oceans, Stupid Navy tricks, Blue Whales, etc). But there is an opportunity here--while this stuff is in the news, we need to communicate it to friends, family, coworkers AND our elected officials.