Monday, September 28, 2009

Stop Eating Fish?

It's written in tabloid, semi-hysterical style. And rightly so.
Today, governments provide nearly $30 billion in subsidies each year--about one-third of the value of the global catch--that keep fisheries going, even when they have overexploited their resource base. As a result, there are between two and four times as many boats as the annual catch requires, and yet, the funds to “build capacity” keep coming...
But eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee.
There's hope, though, in the last paragraph. If governments start behaving responsibly. Yeah.

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