It stinks.
"Report says fish off US coasts at risk; Warming and acidic waters endanger stocks" by Lenny Bernstein | Washington Post, May 06, 2013
WASHINGTON — Fish stocks off the US coasts, restored to health over the past four decades by cooperation among competing interests and careful management, are threatened anew by warming and increasingly acidic waters, according to a new report and experts who are in Washington this week for a conference on the future of fisheries.
Unlike other threats to fishing grounds, the problems related to global warming cannot be solved area by area, advocates say.
You gotta have faith!
‘‘What we need to pay greater attention to is a changing world and a changing climate and what repercussions that will have,’’ said Chris Dorsett, director of the Ocean Conservancy’s fish conservation and gulf restoration program.
The report, released by the Ocean Conservancy and the Pew Charitable Trusts, hails the 1976 Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act and subsequent amendments for bringing commercial and recreational fishermen, marine scientists, and legislators together to ensure that fish populations would be sustained.
As Congress approaches another reauthorization of the law, the report says that salmon, scallop, and other sea life populations have been brought back from the brink of collapse to a healthy and sustainable state, largely through enforced catch limits.
The ‘‘domestic harvest, export, distribution, and retailing of seafood in America . . . generates more than $116 billion in sales and employs more than 1 million people,’’ according to the report. ‘‘Recreational fishing adds nearly $50 billion and more than 327,000 jobs to that total.’’
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which oversees fisheries management, is hosting this week’s conference, which begins Tuesday....
That the same NOAA caught lying and about temperatures and placing thermometers next to asphalt parking lots?
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Can you feel that hot wind, readers?
Related: May Day: Globe Fishing Net Comes Up Empty
Also see: No Fish For You!
