Epic fail

Channel 4 ran a pretty depressing documentary on the state of the seas some years ago. It's a reason I rarely eat tuna (overfishing) and don't eat cod (overfishing) but go for mussels/sea bass.

It's a really tough problem as it's a "tragedy of the commons" issue: Nobody owns the seas, so lots of companies just go in and grab what they can else "others do it". It needs a complete rethink of stock management / cleanups on a global scale unfortunately.

Definitly fecked up.

On land we have farms. Sure some folk go into the woods and shoot stuff. But thats controlled, and probably doesnt add up to much of a percent of the populus's meat intake.

Due to lack of land, or too many people. Farming has screwed up the land somewhat. But can you imagine what would happen if the massive food corps were allowed to just empty wild areas of animals for slaughter, packaging, and sale in your local super market.

I eat loads of farmed fish. Its not ideal (toxin levels are higher for a start). But it seems a more sustainable option to me.

The latest thing up here. Is dragging huge metal spades along the bottoms of the fjords. To collect seaweeds for export (for health foods I think). Pretty sure the company(s) involved are US owned. So the locals dont even see much money in return for fucking up their local marine areas eco system.