Sylvia Earle says our Taste for “Aquatic Bushmeat” is Killing the Sea – She is wrong!
A recent Newsweek article titled, “Our Taste for ‘Aquatic Bushmeat’ is Killing the Sea
” comments on the state of worldwide fisheries as food. The article uses interviews with Sylvia Earle and the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance to paint a bleak picture of the state of worldwide seafood. The article claims that 90% of fish in the ocean had been removed in the last half-century and 90% of the worlds stocks were unsustainably harvested (since corrected to 29%). Likening fish to “aquatic bushmeat” Sylvia Earle admonishes people who don’t think about what kind of fish they eat or where the fish is from. Read the rest here 13:42
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