Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

His book looks very interesting, and important.  Alas, as it is, there is already not enough time for me to get through what I need to read.

The story of the declining eels was totally unknown to me, and is very sad.  It is curious, is it not, that as with other conservation disaster stories, there is an East Asian connexion.

On EU politics: One would indeed have expected the German presidency to be effective in working for environmental reforms of all kinds.  Puzzling, their falling down on this.  And as for the Portuguese, as much as I love them and their country, we can hardly look to them for radical reforms of fisheries.

Chickens are our cousins! So are other sensitive animals! Enough is enough! No more factory farms!

As with caviar, sometime soon only farms will supply these very expensive products.  Fishermen rush to catch and sell the last of the species as the price rises.

Thus cutting off their own livelihood.  And politicians go with the flow.

I'm with Canis on fishing.  It has become pure evil.  The "free" market has done this.

Here the "free" market in fishing maps and fishing sonar devices is doing the aquatic ecosystem in.  Or what was left of it after nitrogen runnoff and overdevelopment next to lakes and rivers.

Information killing the fish.  It used to take natural education to catch fish, now all it takes is a trip to the fish map and sonar store.

In the Big Lake the fish are falling victim to invasive species brought in on international ships that dump their heavily polluted ballast water in the lake with no regulation or consequences.  And invasive species making their way up the canal from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River.

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