In just 40 years oceans could be empty of fish

RawStory (h/t tenpercent)

The world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050 without fundamental restructuring of the fishing industry, UN experts said Monday.

"If the various estimates we have received... come true, then we are in the situation where 40 years down the line we, effectively, are out of fish," Pavan Sukhdev, head of the UN Environment Program's green economy initiative, told journalists in New York.

A Green Economy report due later this year by UNEP and outside experts argues this disaster can be avoided if subsidies to fishing fleets are slashed and fish are given protected zones -- ultimately resulting in a thriving industry.

The unbelievable madness of it all is that a lot of the overfishing is subsidized by governments and would not otherwise be economical.  That's certainly been the case with Japanese whaling. 

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Dead fish pile up on beach following Gulf of Mexico oil spill

J Dar Tulane, the individual who posted this video on May 12, writes:

"These are the first round of dying/dead fish off the gulf coast in Louisiana. We had to sneak passed Coast Guard guards and eventually were asked to leave when ATV riders drove passed. Literally the entire beach had little piles of these dead fish that the tide had washed in. Most were small flounder like fish but some were pretty huge. Pictures to come."

Jotman has posted the "mother of all" oil spill timelines here.