Next Global Warming Casualty - UK's Fish & Chips - Final Cod Collapse "Extremely LIkely" - Guardian

[hatrack]

Climate change is about to claim another victim: British fish and chips. A study claims that the combination of warmer seas and over-fishing makes a collapse of endangered north Atlantic cod stocks 'extremely likely'.

The warning comes just days after international climate scientists said the world must act immediately to prevent the worst effects, including thousands of species pushed towards extinction.

WWF, formerly the World Wildlife Fund, commissioned an independent report after scientists found 'recruitment levels' of young cod which help replace stocks each year were falling faster than predicted. Cod quotas have fallen from 250,000 in the mid-Seventies to 20,000 this year.

'Climate change and continued high fishing pressure are preventing the rebuilding of stocks,' said Dr Tom Pickerell of WWF.

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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2073597,00.html

[Javaman]

1. This is, needless to say, a very bad thing...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=266x2220

[Delphinus]

2. Glad you linked to that ...

I hadn't read it the first time around.

We've really fucked up royally, haven't we? We foul our own nest and fail to recognize the harm we do to others.