'dire warning' Run fishery a new way or lose it, Canada told

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070124.OCEANS24/TPStory/National


Run fishery a new way or lose it, Canada told
Scientist who co-authored controversial report delivers dire warning to N.S. panel



Canada must look at different ways of managing its fisheries, and introduce new means of catching fish, or face the steady disappearance of species in its waters, a marine biologist warned yesterday.

Boris Worm, co-author of a controversial report that projects the collapse of all of the world's commercially fished stocks within 50 years, said there is still a chance for already fragile fisheries to rebound if certain measures are introduced.

If not, it's a virtual certainty that more species will go the way of the cod and other big fish that have been almost wiped out.

"I think the only thing that can turn it around is a sense of crisis," Dr. Worm said at a Nova Scotia standing committee hearing on the fisheries.

"There's a window that's slowly closing for getting these things to recover and restoring our maritime heritage."
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no country's maritime heritage will ever be restored

every day more links in our food chain disappear

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1. People don't realize how badly our fish stocks are in danger

The biggest threat is due to overuse. After that, destruction of estuarine wetlands is causing problems for a lot of species too, since they use such areas for reproduction and those areas are vital to the nutrient flow in the ocean.

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2. yes, people seem to hate wetlands, swamps, etc. but they are nurserys

for a tremendous amount of species

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3. Sweeping changes are necessary by ALL humans...........

YOU can no longer have IT ALL or there will be NOTHING for ANYBODY.

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4. That's the Tragedy of the Commons

Use it up before your neighbor can...