I discreetly avoid the tuna while in a sushi restaurant. Maybe sushi restaurants should become targets of protests to get tuna off the menu.

A popular restaurant on Capital hill was being protested the other night. I asked one of the participants what they were protesting--Foie_gras.

I rolled my eyes. Hundreds of millions of malnourished children, a major extinction event, the oceans dying, global warming, and these people have as their highest priority the quality of life of domesticated farm animals. Sorry, a bit off topic.

In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world

...in his new incarnation as a progressive foodie has been writing about fish (complete with great NYT charts).  He identifies China as a model for small-scale fish farming, which surprised me no end.  Saving the tuna is a real problem - and unfortunately the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas isn't much help.  Who's going to step into that void?

Bycatch is what hurts my head and my heart the most about commercial fishing. Even small fishers waste a lot. Check out these gorgeous and appalling images by Brian Skerry of small scale bycatch if you haven't seen these before:

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/12/5/84020/7064

And then multiply the amount of waste you see by a very large factor to imagine what a factory trawler might dump overboard...

Erik

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who obliterated the great plains ecosystems once the last of the native Americans who were trying to preserve the herds were themselves killed or herded into domestication.

In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world

9 foot tapeworm anyone?

This picture on some big posters held up by protestors might be a good way to stop sushi entirely.  Reputable restaurants could go vegan.

Vegan sushi is every bit as good as tapeworm sushi, but of course if you want to diet the tapeworm way, eat the tuna sushi.

But the really great point of this article is that small local fishing rules, in every respect.  Offshore floating wind/wave/ocean current power generators and desalination systems would help prevent factory fishing.

This is a powerful green juggernaut that could assault fossil fuel and nuclear power and it's GHG and ocean life killing factory fishing symbiotically.  Save the fish, fishing communities, and the climate.  Do it yesterday!

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin