Oh my cod!! Just 100 Cod Left in North Sea!!

We've killed the gift. The balance is lost.

Very sad indeed... so much to feel unhappy about at the moment.

Head up.. keep on moving... I'm hoping for a miracle, because we bloody need one the way things are currently going.

// WildStyle



Last Edited by WildStyle on 09/16/2012 02:10 PM

Looks like the fishermen are over-fishing themselves out of a job.

I hope the tide turns, too, but it appears pretty dismal.

Then along the east coast, we have this fish news:

End of the Line for New England Gillnetters?


Just a few weeks ago, NOAA Fisheries Service, informed the seacoast’s fishing community of a closure to all gillnetters for the month of October and November, meaning no gillnet fisherman is allowed to fish from Portland, Maine all the way south to Massachusetts for 2 whole months.

The closure has been set by NOAA due to what they have deemed as a lack of compliance from fishermen with regards to their harbor porpoise take reduction plan. On rare occasions harbor porpoises, a cetacean within the dolphin and whale family, swim into the invisible sink gillnets becoming tangled, often being left to die due to their inability to surface for air.

So as a precaution, NOAA began requiring gillnetters to attach a device called a pinger to each net which gives out a high-pitched noise detectable by porpoises and other large mammals in order to deter them from becoming trapped in the nets, a technique that is proven to be 90% effective.

However, when these regulations were put into place there was little information provided to fishermen on how to operate the pingers to most effectively repel the porpoises. It’s not always obvious whether a pinger is functioning because the sound is often undetectable by the human ear.

As a result this past year, the local gillnetting fleet was determined to be only 40% pinger compliant, hence the closure as punishment. But how did management arrive at this number? Therein lies the controversy.

What constitutes being compliant? How many boats were observed? How are fishermen supposed to be sure their pingers are properly working? What about the 10% of the pingers that are proven to be ineffective?

Not only will the fishermen be impacted, but the infrastructure of the system as a whole will take a hit, establishments such as the Yankee Fishermen’s Cooperative.

With this closure in place, there will be an estimated loss of 3 million dollars, both directly and indirectly, to our local communities, however our NH fishermen will be paying the ultimate price.

Read more here:

[link to seavanhorn.wordpress.com]

In 2003 scientists revealed that since the 1950's 90% of the fish were fished out of the sea:

[link to articles.cnn.com]

More of the same here: [link to www.google.com]

At the rate we were going, we should be now entering the end game where the large fish are now gone.

And from what you are digging up, I guess we are at the end.

Here we have absolute DOOM.
And know one cares?
Wake up sheepole

this is the one thread that should be pinned

If true that is really sad.

Can't they farm Cod? Then replenish the oceans?

I bet the person that explored the entire waters of the North Sea and counted only found 100 COD is damn tired. Geesh.

I can go for a "Filet O Fish" right now.

Yes, but that takes time and money and no one wants to give up either for a species of fish.

Yes, and thanks to him we now know that cod is not ommipresent.

oh my, what about h salt? no more cod

And whos the dummies that said the whole population can fit in the state of Texas and that overpopulation concerns are a fraud.

Its not about availiable space, its about resources.

Are they counting the glow in the dark Fukushima cod?

Cod damn you! Cod damn you all to hell!

I did.

Me too...I also advocate Permaculture to eradicate the nemesis known as lawns and producing your own food for the most part. Imagine that! Personal responsibility.....

Only 100 million Muslims left in Egypt.

Fish and chips Doom!

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day.

Teach a man to fish, he'll figure out a way to profit from it until there are no more fish.

There was a time that the explorers would have to navigate through such large qualities of cod that their ships would slow down from the friction.

Our earth is becoming unsustainable.

Over population, demanding more and more from the ocean, extinction of species has to be the end result.

The survey of cod is over fishing.
The gill netters rare porpoise kill shut down is Obama destroying another industry to make the greens happy.

Oh yeah, producing your own food. Tell that to the millions of people living in the concrete jungles of the cities.

OK, produce your own food. there done. now actually DO IT. we are here.

It's getting very difficult to find wild caught fish in the grocery stores. Everything is farm-raised on dead chickens, feathers, and other refuse. There's a toxic slime that comes to the top when those things are baked.

Soylent green, anyone?

When I was younger I loved catching cod in the Irish sea. Lucky to catch seaweed now.