Tuna Does Not Grow on Trees

It is said that the cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. So what, then, is the cure for the sea should it need saving? It should come as no surprise that the ocean is in broad trouble. As a passionate diver and board member of Project 0, I was really pleased to hear that the United Nations have now set a goal for ocean health as one of the new 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which will come into force in January 2016. Now while this is great news, it seems long overdue. These new "goals" will replace the Millennium Development Goals, which expire at the end of the year. These older sustainability goals failed hideously to address the problems at sea. I am not a scientist or a journalist, but it seems to me that the ocean is an integral aspect of human existence on this planet. I'm sure you may have noticed some plastic on a beach or coastline? Have you ever gone further and pondered how much worse this would be if no one picked it up -- or how much better it would be if it wasn't there in the first place? It's thought to take a minimum of 500 years for plastics to biodegrade, which should puzzle the anthropologists of the future. Have you ever thought about all the tuna in every deli in the United States and all around the world? Today a shocking 90 percent of fish are either fully fished or overfished. Despite whatever anyone tells you, tuna does not grow on trees, which is a good thing because if it did, we would have chopped them down and hav...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - Category: Science Source Type: news