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Re: The Limits To Growth



Mike Asher (masher@tusc.net) wrote:
: Speak of misleading!  Your table includes only the species that experienced
: declines; not hard to support your thesis that 'fish are running out'. 
: However, culling from the same source as you, the FAO, I pulled the
: following data:

: "World marine fisheries production has increased almost fivefold over the
: past 40 years, rising from around 18 million tonnes to more than 86 million
: tonnes by 1989... The use of fish as a source of food has increased
: steadily, rising from 40 million tonnes in 1970 to 70 million tonnes in
: 1989."
This is misleading too because it is old information - I don't have access
immediately but the best information is a graph shown in New Scientist
which showed that fishing had maxed out and was declining.  It also showed
that large areas of ALL the oceans had major reductions in fish stocks. 
Certain areas like those off Newfoundland which were originally teaming
with Cod now essentially have none.  
Has any body got a copy of the graph showing fishing tonnage and stock
estimates for the last 20 years - the one I saw was really scary.



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