Overfishing


Fish bar code system under development -- Yomiuri Shimbun  -- Daily Yomiuri  -- August 16, 2004
Metacomputing

A new cell phone information system is being developed to enable consumers to receive detailed information about fish at retail stores, including where and when the fish was caught and by whom

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The Bluewater Revolution -- Charles Mann  -- Wired  -- May 1, 2004
Overfishing

To address the overfishing problem and growing worldwide demand for protein, researchers have developed an unmanned underwater vehicle that will fish in the deep ocean rather then in the overfished coastal region. The plan is to use predictable ocean currents (aka 'gyres' ;)) to create enormous, underwater, automated fish farms.

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Commercial Fleets Reduced Big Fish by 90%, Study Says -- Andrew C. Revkin  -- New York Times  -- May 15, 2003
Overfishing

In just 50 years, the global spread of industrial-scale commercial fishing has cut by 90 percent the oceans' population of large predatory fishes, from majestic giants like blue marlin to staples like cod, a new study has found.

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Ocean's great fish all but gone -- Bob Holmes  -- New Scientist  -- May 14, 2003
Overfishing

The world's fisheries are in a far worse state than anyone thought. Great predatory fish such as shark, marlin, swordfish and tuna that once filled the seas are much scarcer than they once were, according to a new assessment. And worse, stocks that appear to be flourishing may already have been stripped bare without anyone noticing.

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Complete collapse of North Atlantic fishing predicted -- Staff  -- New Scientist  -- February 1, 2002
Overfishing

The entire North Atlantic is being so severely overfished that it may completely collapse by 2010, reveals the first comprehensive survey of the entire ocean's fishery.

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Human plunder of the seas -- Helen Briggs  -- BBC News  -- July 27, 2001
Overfishing

Centuries of overfishing by man have emptied the world\'s oceans of giant fish, whales and other large sea creatures, destroying coastal environments.

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Genetically Modified Solution to Overfishing -- Staff  -- BBC News  -- September 29, 2000
Genetic Engineering

Genetically modified farmed-fish will feed the world by the year 2025 as global catches decline, predicts a US scientist. GM fish farms will be the only way to supply enough seafood amid the continuing collapse of commercial marine fisheries, believes Professor Yonathan Zohar, of the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute.

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