Friday, November 03, 2006


A GOOD DAY FOR ZEROFISH


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Posted by Robert Brady on Friday, November 03, 2006

3 comments:

Tabor said...

Just one little comment. I have good and respected and *intelligent* science friends who do not have an axe to grind that are skeptical of the articles Science magazine and its researchers seem to publish on topics. Things are not necessarily as bad as they seem. While many of the things said here are true, it is more complicated and as with other things Science publishes, it doesn't always allow input from those who disagree or who want a more balanced version. ( I am not talking about radical scientists here!)

6:56 AM
Robert Brady said...

Though Science mag may have somewhat of a green alarmist tilt, the point here is not that the extrapolation is inevitable, but that such a plunge can be prevented. "This is a vast piece of research, incorporating scientists from many institutions in Europe and the Americas, and drawing on four distinctly different kinds of data" sounds pretty intelligent to me. Japan, of all countries, unilaterally just cut its yellowfin tuna catch quota by 1/3. No fishing country is harder to restrain than Japan, which is still killing whales and dolphins. So they're convinced that something must be done.

8:11 AM
Tabor said...

I guess that is my point. It is not so dire and irreversable. Actually, as with Japan, things are changing. What Science mag tends to do is denigrate some reasonable alternative/solutions to this--- sorry I am so vague...just protecting my personal interests.

8:17 PM

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