FAO sounds alarm on some high-seas fish stocks - AFP

[Eugene]

FAO sounds alarm on some high-seas fish stocks

Mon Mar 5, 3:30 AM ET

ROME (AFP) - The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Monday voiced "serious
concern" over a number of species of fish caught on the high seas and called for
better monitoring and management of the stocks.

"The condition of stocks of certain species that are fished either solely or partially
in high seas areas outside of national jurisdictions is cause for serious concern," the
Rome-based UN agency said in its State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture report.

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Even though stocks have been fairly stable for the past 15 years, "more than half
of stocks of highly migratory sharks and 66 percent of high-seas and straddling fish
stocks rank as either overexploited or depleted," it said, citing hakes, Atlantic cod
and halibut, orange roughy, basking shark and bluefin tuna.

"While these stocks represent only a small fraction of the world's fishery resources,
they are key indicators of the state of a massive piece of the ocean ecosystem,"
FAO deputy fisheries chief Ichiro Nomura said in the report.

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Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070305/sc_afp/unfaofish_070305083055

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1. I feel very sad - I read this and immediately started thinking negatively

about our government leadership. The REALITY shifting has been so successful that I double interpret everything I read coming from the government (USSR?) and especially from the FDA - I have not believed them for a very long time (LOBBYISTS OWN THEM).

My first thought is that since they never or rarely do anything for us, for our health, for the people who pay their salaries ... I immediately thought about what their double standard was in this release - have they signed some deals with friends who own fish farms and they are trying to cut off those who deal in wild fish and are fighting one of their enemies?

This is the ultimate fall-out (for me) of not being able to trust our Washington employees.

They spend a fortune on say-nothing literature about obesity and the fine qualities of additives, preservatives, genetices - and never question lobbyists.

I think I reached a pinnacle of disbelief with this simple message when all they might be saying is warming is true and we're going to lose the fish some people need for health and income.

I give up - we've been had no matter how we interprest it. Every day we pay for crap from these people.