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« on: Oct 31st, 2002, 2:37pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (Reuters) -- The world's growing population and overfishing will mean around one billion people in developing countries will face shortages of fish, their most important source of protein, within 20 years.  
 
According to analysis released by the Malaysia-based WorldFish Center and the International Food Policy Research Institute, only strong growth in fish farms will save the world from an even more critical situation,  
 
The study estimated that fish currently accounts for around seven percent of global food supplies and was the primary source of animal protein for one-sixth of the world's six billion people.  
 
WorldFish said in a statement released ahead of an international conference in Penang, Malaysia, November 3 that some fish species will disappear from markets and the quality of seafood will decline -- and it also predicted increasing disputes between countries over fishing grounds.  
 
It said the decline in catches will have a serious impact on food security, nutrition and income in the two decades.  
 
"Fish is the fastest growing source of food in the developing world yet demand greatly exceeds supply and the problem is growing," Dr Meryl Williams, Director-General of the center, said in the statement.  
 
Fish consumption doubles
With 90 million more mouths to feed a year, fish stocks could not cope after 50 years in which average per capita consumption of fish has almost doubled.  
 
Aquaculture, or fish farming, offered a partial solution and under the study's most likely scenario, global production will rise 1.5 percent annually until 2020.  
 
Two-thirds of the growth will come from aquaculture, which will provide 41 percent of total food production by then -- up from 31 percent five years ago.  
 
Economists estimate that the fishing industry's inability to keep pace with demand will result in prices rising anywhere between 4 and 16 percent by 2020 at best, and in a worst case scenario by 26 to 70 percent.  
 
The conference will be attended by policymakers, scientists, industry leaders and non-government organizations from 40 countries.
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« Reply #1 on: Nov 3rd, 2002, 7:05am »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
We have known that commercial trawling does incredible damage to natural fish and seafood populations.  
 
Yet as a society we continue.  It is so very frustrating.  Although I gave up eating fish 10 years ago on principle  because of these issues, I recently learned that children in particular need fish at least twice a week because the natural type of fats found in fish is so important to brain development especially in young children and toddlers.  
 
It's such a frustrating issue to see us wipe out the entire populations of fish.  When I saw what happened to the cod stocks in NFLD and the salmon in BC it seemed to me that eating fish was a very wrong thing to do.
 
Still how can I choose personal conviction over my child's health.  I cannot.  So we now include some fish in our diet.  
 
I hope and pray that labelling of food products continues to increas in order to give consumers more information on which to base their purchases.  I cannot say that farmed fisheries fish is better or worse.  I need to learn more about these fish farms.  I have heard some quite negative things especially with the rapid spread or infections and illness in the farmed fish population.
 
Still I want to know where my fish came from, how it was obtained, and give those who practice environmentally sound fishing practices the preference in my buying habits.  Like the dolphin free labelling of Tuna that occurred several years ago.
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I read in newsweek the othe day that if salmon says "Alaskan" then it is caught fresh.  If it says "Atlantic" then that refers to the breed and is farmed.  The didn't have a lot to say about it other than it was putting fishermen out of business, but after reading this article I'm having a hard time saying if that's a bad thing or not.   Huh
 
Oddest thing in the article was they said farmed salmon are actually the same color as halibut, so they feed them specially dyed food to make them turn the right shade of pink.  At first I thought YUCK!, but then I remembered that there is dye in just about everything we eat that's processed and manufactured...it's nothing new...I just didn't expect it in my fish.
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