[crazydave]

just watching a doco about fish stocks and the way the oceans are being over fished.

I didnt know that the newfoundland cod collapsed in 92 and is now considered irrecoverable!

tuna's next.

they reckon action was needed back in 1980 but they didnt have the data to realise it

[BlueDude13]

The huge masses of garbage floating in the oceans are also interesting/frightening to read about.

Wonder how many more species are going to go that way before folks start trying to do something about it?

[Celticwarrior]

Commercial fish ranching is next. Giant floating cesspools of genetically engineered fish like cattle or turkeys today, bobbing around the ocean & polluting as they go, their captives completely unable to reproduce by themselves. Figure tuna and cod will likely be the first ones to go extinct in the wild but be a booming ranch industry within 25 years. Pretty sad.

[Dick]

I watched a show a while back where this Newfie (person from the Canadian Province of Newfoundland) was catching wild cod, putting them in a floating corral(?), and feeding them. Once they were big and fat enough he would ship them off to market.

Not a bad idea all in all. I would guess that for every 1000 he grew only a small fraction of those would have survived in the wild.

Salmon farming is under huge scrutiny here. The main issue seems to be lice on the fish being transferred to the wild salmon population and causing a lot of mortality...but no one really knows...because no one with money cares.

[LaRemnant]

Originally Posted by Dick

Salmon farming is under huge scrutiny here. The main issue seems to be lice on the fish being transferred to the wild salmon population and causing a lot of mortality...but no one really knows...because no one with money cares.

What the CRAP? I've NEVER heard of fish having LICE!!!

What's their proper name? I mean, not scientific name (as you are well known for providing), but what the layman calls them?

ThanX

[Celticwarrior]

Originally Posted by LaRemnant

What the CRAP? I've NEVER heard of fish having LICE!!!

What's their proper name? I mean, not scientific name (as you are well known for providing), but what the layman calls them?

ThanX

Umm, not to be a smarta$$ but it's named the Salmon Louse (singular of Lice). Salmon louse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/...xtinction.html

[George]

Lice cleaning companion fish would be great, similar to what sharks seem to have

[Celticwarrior]

Originally Posted by George

Lice cleaning companion fish would be great, similar to what sharks seem to have

So, we need to bioengineer a freshwater remora with a taste for salmon lice??? Sounds like a plan.

[Dick]

Originally Posted by Celticwarrior

Umm, not to be a smarta$$ but it's named the Salmon Louse (singular of Lice). Salmon louse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fish farms drive wild salmon populations toward extinction

Umm, to be a smarta$$...

Originally Posted by Biology News Net

Sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) are naturally occurring parasites of wild salmon that latch onto the fishes’ skin in the open ocean.

...after all I'm pretty sure there is more than one out there.

P.S. Thanks for pulling up those references for LaRem.

[Chris Kavanaugh]

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