Ocean fish could disappear in 40 years

This week’s blog entry is about ‘ocean fish could disappear in 40 years’

This article is basically saying that the human race is consuming more fish than suppose to. This is due to demand. With more people wanting fish, the fishing fleets will catch and sell as much to obtain highest profit. This demand is the one that is causing the number of fishes in the oceans to go down.

Government subsidies to fishing fleets aroung the world, amounting to 27 billion, in my opinion is obviously not enough to make the fishing fleets fish less; this is because the total revenue by catching fish is 85 billion. That is a whopping 58 billion dollars worth of revenue to fish.

We as humans that roam the earth, should know our limits in what we do. Although we like blue fin tuna or rays, we should try our best to avoid these fishes. According to http://www.fishonline.org/advice/avoid/?item=9, these two fishes are two of the 48 fishes that we should avoid fishing. If we still choose to do so, a major catastrophe will happen, these fishes will be wiped out from our earth forever.

A little away from the topic, we are also encouraged to be vegetarians. This is because the process of moving the meat to the consumer causes global warming. According to the United Nations movement, Be Veg! Go Green!, if we do not adopt a meat free lifestyle, countries and glaciers would disappear in a few years time.

I suggest that we should think of what we are doing to our planet and stop the harm. Be Veg! Go Green!, eat less fish!