Great fisheries graphic - sorry about the size, but that's what it took to make the text readable

[hatrack]

http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/0905/trans0509nomorefishinthesea.html

[RC]

1. Another symptom of too many people.

This planet can not sustain this many people. And still our numbers increase.

[OKIsItJustMe]

2. I'm fond of this one myself

[XemaSab]

3. Peak tuna

:(

[OKIsItJustMe]

5. I'm afraid we're well past peak tuna

But, that won't stop us from fishing them all out.

[madokie]

4. To make matters even worse

we're finding out the Italian mafia has been poisoning our oceans with nuclear waste as if the aquatic life knows better how to deal with the shit

[OKIsItJustMe]

6. As if the mercury wasn't bad enough?

However, I understand nuclear waste just isn't a problem. Europe's got it all figured out.

[madokie]

8. dumping it in the oceans?

surely you jest.

[OKIsItJustMe]

10. You see right through me!

(I do jest!)

[Nederland]

7. Classic Example of Tragedy of the Commons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

[joshcryer]

11. The demoralizing part is that this is *with* quotas in place.

Quotas which keep moving goalposts, but which would stop us from making extinct vast parts of the ocean in one fishing system (we have the technology to do that already, big fishing vessels, if they wanted to keep fishing past their window, would simply make extinct species if they did so).

[eppur_se_muova]

9. It's not just the fish we eat, or grind into protein meal for livestock ...

it's all the bycatch -- what the industry calls "trash fish" -- that get killed going after the money fish. Tortoises and dolphins get it worst because they get trapped under water and drown, but lots of others are fatally injured by the sudden pressure changes and crushed when the nets are hauled out and dumped. Over the side they go.