onlooker wrote:Well speed it up, because
"Our Planet Is Exploding With Ocean Dead Zones"
https://amp.businessinsider.com/map-of- ... nes-2013-6
dohboi wrote:Thanks for that insight, dis.
It seems to me that one dubious source of hope on that front is that this time around, we have already stripped the oceans of so much life, there will not be all that much 'detritus' to be turned into H2S...but then again, I've probably missed something...as usual...
China's super trawlers are stripping the ocean bare as its hunger for seafood grows
When they get the seas sufficiently empty of fish there will be no profit in it even with subsidies. At that point they will stop fishing and with time the fish stocks will recover. What happened with the whaling industry foretells the outcome.onlooker wrote:China's super trawlers are stripping the ocean bare as its hunger for seafood grows
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-30/c ... fmredir=sm
vtsnowedin wrote:When they get the seas sufficiently empty of fish there will be no profit in it even with subsidies. At that point they will stop fishing and with time the fish stocks will recover. What happened with the whaling industry foretells the outcome.onlooker wrote:China's super trawlers are stripping the ocean bare as its hunger for seafood grows
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-30/c ... fmredir=sm
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
A tipping point to maintain fishing stocks and one threatening the survival of the species are two different things. In the case of cod the breeding size older fish often called whale cod often live around old wrecks and other rough bottom that fouls drag nets. Some of these will undoubtedly survive no matter how intense fishing pressure gets before the humans give it up. But it will take decades (The whales have still not recovered to seventeenth century population levels.) So it will be long after you and I are gone before the fishing for cod off Cape Cod is good again. Perhaps fifty years after the end of WW3?Tanada wrote:
Provided they do not pass the tipping point of the particular species this is likely true, however some fish like Cod for example have a very long maturation cycle. They reach a salable weight a long time before they become reproductively active.
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Red tide spreads to Florida's east coast, shuttering some Miami-Dade beaches
The red tide bloom that's been in the waters off Florida's Gulf coast for months is now choking the Atlantic Ocean waters from Miami Beach to Palm Beach, Florida.
Three generations of the Claus family have been fishing the Atlantic waters in southeastern Florida. Trey Claus, 30, has never seen anything like this; he said neither has anyone else he knows.
"This might put a halt to our season, which is not a good thing," he said.
Should the red tide bloom settle in, mass fish kills will happen. It will kill the Claus family's charter reservations, and the game fish they're after. ...........
.......The upcoming fishing and shellfish seasons would shut down: including stone crab, ballyhoo, sailfish, to name a few.
But most people don't just come to Florida for the fishing — it's the pristine, white sand beaches. And red tide has already shuttered some.
New beach closures in Miami-Dade County
"I'm not sure if we've ever had red tide in Miami before," said Larry Brand, University of Miami professor of marine biology and ecology.
The worst water samples taken in Miami-Dade County, off Haulover Inlet, had medium levels of red tide. Those levels pushed Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez to close several beaches "in an abundance of caution."
Miami Beach and Crandon Park samples also had red tide algae, but in the "very low to low range."
Earlier in the week, red tide shut down a number of beaches in Palm Beach County. Some remain closed; video posted to social media showed some of the red tide fish kill washing up on the beaches......
More: https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/04/us/red-t ... index.html
An ongoing red tide is killing wildlife throughout Florida’s southwest coast and has left beaches littered with dead fish, sea turtles, manatees and a whale shark. Additional footage courtesy of Southwest Florida TV via Facebook.
Dozens of dead fish littered a Palm Beach County beach Wednesday as a toxic red tide appeared to spread along Florida’s Atlantic coast.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials confirmed Wednesday that low to moderate amounts of the algae that cause red tide have now turned up off three counties along the state’s more densely populated east coast. Blooms were confirmed in Palm Beach, Martin and St. Lucie counties, marking the first appearance of red tide along Atlantic shores in more than a decade...
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