Seafood Vanishing!
And it’s not the work of supermarket pranksters. This National Geographic article explains that in 2048 there may be little to no available seafood to harvest, due to a languishing biodiversity in ecosystems. Apparently it really does take all kinds.
The increasing pace of diversity loss thus imperils the “ecosystems services” that many human populations depend on for survival, the study says.
The research also found that biodiversity loss is tightly linked to declining water quality, harmful algal blooms, ocean dead zones, fish kills, and coastal flooding.
“Biodiversity is a finite resource, and we are going to end up with nothing left … if nothing changes,” said Boris Worm, an assistant professor of marine conservation biology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada.
As a seafood lover, I find this shocking. They’re telling me unless fishers get their act together and stop fishing species into oblivion, there won’t be any more seafood to eat later in my lifetime. Oh, woe is the fan of Long John Silvers, shrimp scampi, and seafood alfredo.
Do you like seafood? Why or why not?
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6 November 2006, 14:59
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I’m a huge fan of seafood (which ruined my attempt to go vegetarian..) so I’m very very concerned about this.
I don’t think I’d survive without my mother’s fish soup!
@Kaisa
Fish soup?!
I’ve never even heard of that. I’ve heard of clam chowder, but not fish soup.
What’s it like?
Fish soup is just potatoes, milk, fish and some veggies. Or tomato juice instead of the milk. I suppose it’s more a Finnish thing
that is a royal shame! i grew up in the bahamas, so all i know is seafood. *dies on the floor*
NOOOO!! The fish is already vanishing down in Newfoundland!! I like seafood. I hate the bones though. I almost choked on some once.
I find it shocking too. I’ll miss seafood.. especially SUSHI. (I hate to think that it’s raw fish… freshly cut salmon and still bleeding? ick.) So I think vegetarians will start to vanish too? =D
@Kaisa
Oh. Haha, I feel like a country bumpkin again now.
I’m so not worldly right now…
But the tomato version does sound yummy. Have a recipe?
@Nessie
Isn’t it? I’m gonna have to cry and shove some seafood in my face tomorrow. I’ll miss fish.
@Grace
Haha, reminds me of when I was little and I tried to eat the tail off of a shrimp.
I usually cook with boneless fillets, so I never run into that problem, but ugh, I bet it’d suck to choke on them.
Sushi rocks. Tasty tasty raw fish.
Haha, you know, I thought vegetarians didn’t eat fish. I thought the real strict vegans only ate plants, not even milk or eggs. Maybe some slightly less strict vegetarians do eat fish…*thinking*
Oh no. Although I’m not really a super fan of seafoods (because I don’t know how to eat a crab properly ^_^), I love eating them. I used to eat them everyday. I hope it wouldn’t be a real problem in the future though.
I’m allergc to seafood.. it hurts my stomach, but recently, just recently, I started to eat a bit.. I’m a big tuna fan though!
@Shari
Haha, I don’t have a clue how to eat a whole crab either. The only ways I’ve ever eaten it were in sushi and with the meat already removed from the shell.
I’m hoping something is done about this, too.
It really worries me because I eat fish almost every day, and I don’t want to have to replace the fish in my recipes with chicken. I don’t like chicken that much…
@Noha
Oh, geez, my Dad is allergic to seafood too. He breaks out and has really bad reactions to it.
I’ve never liked tuna that much, but supposedly it makes awesome sandwiches and salads.
I hate seafood. I’m sorry, I just find it absolutely disgusting. It has a gross smell and a horrible taste, especially salmon, it smells so gross, I don’t know why anyone would smell, let alone eat it. It all tastes horrible.
If you like it though, that seems horrible for you.
I’m not big on seafood, coming from the midwest, we don’t really eat it that much. But for some reason I find that information hard to believe. But I wouldn’t really know, I don’t eat seafood, nor am I a scientist. lol
Not too keen on seafood, except fish ‘n’ chips.
Vanishing? o__O
@Mia
Maybe you’ll like it when you get older. I was the same way. I hated seafood until I got a little older.
@Melissa
Haha, I’m pretty close to the Midwest, actually. Right on the border with Ohio. (How do you survive where everything is so flat?!)
Our family used to not have any fish until I discovered I liked it via restaurants, and we started buying big bags of frozen fish, scallops, shrimp, and what have you at Sam’s Club.
@Emma
Yeah, as in we’re fishing too much of one fish out of an area, and in the environments, different types of life are vanishing, and when that happens, it’s shown that the environment usually goes kaput.
Essentially fishing them to death, but not really.
I rarely eat seafood but I like it.
It’s not only the fishers problem that the fishies are starting to disappear completely - it is also a problem that the politicians don’t come up with any “instead of” solutions for the fishers families if they earn less on what they are doing now.
I dont eat sea food anyway! I love aquatic life. I cry when I see people eat em
@Nan
Oh, I didn’t think about that, but yeah, that is another huge part of the problem.
@Alyssa
I thought I was a bleeding heart, but geez you have me beat.
I may cry when plants die, but at least don’t cry when animals eat other animals. The human animal is no exception to the rule “animals eat other animals”.
I love seafood especially when it’s freshly caught. I am allergic when it comes to crabs and lobsters but I still have a bite of them every now and then.
It’s sad news that in the future we may not be able to enjoy them.