Overfishing Responsible For Declining Fish Population (theguardian.com)

iONiUM send word of a new study into fishing practices around the world that found official reports have dramatically underestimated the number of fish caught over the past several decades. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, global catches peaked at 86 million tons in 1996, and began a slow decline after that. This study suggests the peak was much higher — around 130 million tons — and subsequent catch rates are falling three times faster. Significantly, they believe the decline is not due to less fishing activity, but rather the exhaustion of supply in many areas. One of the study's authors, Daniel Pauly, said, "I expect a continued decline because I don’t expect countries to realise the need to rebuild stocks. I don’t see African countries, for example, rebuilding their stocks, or being allowed to by the foreign fleets that are working there, because the pressure to continue to fish is very strong. We know how to fix this problem but whether we do it or not depends on conditions that are difficult."

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Re:People eat

[Virtucon]

This is exactly the big problem. We have too many people for the resources available. That means one of these possibilities must happen soon:

1) We start getting serious about population control. You don't need 20 kids anymore to insure your retirement.
2) We have another world war and wipe out a chunk of who's already here. Unfortunately that'll probably be a nuclear war
and the rest of us will be gone as well.
3) We all start starving, in that case I suggest eating the Kardashians and any other reality TV shows first. This includes Oprah who's especially fat.
4) I believe we'll run out of fresh water before we get to famine, buy water futures now.
5) We colonize Mars but that'll take a huge investment or we offer "steerage" class fares on Virgin Galactic.
6) We implement "Logan's Run" and everybody who's 30 or older gets zapped at festival.