No more fish to eat in 40 years!

Submitted by mala on Wed, 2006-11-08 03:56. ecology

I am definitely not bothered because I am a die hard vegetarian.
But I do share my concern with eco enthusiasts.

A study published in Friday’s issue of the journal Science makes a dire prediction for the world’s ocean life. According to researchers, there will be no seafood left to catch by 2048, except for jellyfish, which will thrive in the new, collapsed ecosystem.

Luckily, they say that jellyfish have the same nutritional content as shrimp, which is pretty darn good.

To arrive at the conclusion that there will be no more fish by 2048, the scientists looked at a number of data sources, including global fishing data from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, fishing data from all 64 major global marine ecosystems between 1950 and 2003, results from individual studies of marine areas by local scientists — including a study of the San Francisco Bay and its surrounding rivers — and data from 48 marine areas protected by conservation measures.

Read the full article here:
Why would there be no more fish in 40 years?