NPR - WBUR
- On Point
7 November 2006
We've heard it before and turned back to our tuna
sandwiches -- the world's fisheries are in big trouble. But this time,
the headline was a screamer: "global collapse" of all species
currently fished by 2050.
Everything, essentially, except jellyfish and sea slime will be gone
from the seas. And not so many fish and chips orders from now.
Critics say American fisheries are in fact on the uptick, thank you. But the global picture -- and too many home waters -- is of massive trawlers clear-cutting the ocean floor, maybe one day forever.
We talk with the lead author of the alarming new report, a critic of the study and with a Maine fisherman, winner of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award, about the future of fish in the sea.
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Boris Worm, Professor of Marine Conservation Biology, Dalhousie University
in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
· Ray Hilborn, Professor of Fisheries Management at the School
of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle
· Ted Ames, fisherman from Stonington, Maine and winner of a
MacArthur Foundation "genius" award.
· Michelle Jost, conservation manager at the Shedd Aquarium in
Chicago, where she heads the sustainable seafood program