Happyfeet
Friday, November 03, 2006
Can you live without fish?
Well I can't.
Seafood species may be depleted within 50 years, scientists claim
By SCOTT HARPER, The Virginian-Pilot
Wild seafood stocks could collapse by 2050 – including tuna, striped bass, blue crabs, oysters and clams – devastating food supplies, scientists warn in a major study to be published today.
The study, in the journal Science, stems from four years of research and analysis by scientists in Canada, Sweden and the United States. Among them is J. Emmett Duffy, an ecologist and head of biological sciences at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science in Gloucester County.
Duffy described the gist of the paper this way: “Biodiversity matters.”
The study, in the journal Science, stems from four years of research and analysis by scientists in Canada, Sweden and the United States. Among them is J. Emmett Duffy, an ecologist and head of biological sciences at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science in Gloucester County.
Duffy described the gist of the paper this way: “Biodiversity matters.”
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