Some of the threats posed by climate change can appear rather esoteric or abstract. One of these is ocean acidification – it is not immediately obvious why we should care. A recent paper by Sara Cooley and colleagues give a good example of why the threat of changing ocean chemistry matters.
Plenty of Fish in the Sea?
How many of us have been told at some point in our lives “don’t worry…there’s plenty more fish in the sea”?
This old proverb might comfort us for disappointment in love, but taken in its most literal sense, few people seem to believe it.
Fish – making a meal of it
There is something circular about the idea of catching fish to use as feed for farmed fish, livestock, poultry and our pets. And with about one third of the global fish catch going in this direction, most of it destined for aquaculture, you might well ask whether growing the farmed fish to put in your supermarket has deprived a hungry or malnourished person of food.
Tags: Aquaculture, Coastal zone management, Disasters, Fish culture, Fish farming, Fisheries, Inland fisheries
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