Either humans will solve the ocean crisis they created or nature will provide the unthinkable solution for them, Danny Quintana, Founder GHSMP & Author ofSpace & Ocean Exploration: The Alternative to the Military-Industrial Complex
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The Problem, Fish Stocks Collapsing and Ocean Ecosystems in Peril: There is little exaggeration in the notion that major fisheries around the world might collapse as top-of-the-food-chain marine predators like tuna, sharks and whales are being fished out of existence by industrial fishing that scoops up the desired prey while discarding millions of tons of various marine creatures called by-catch. Upwards of 100-million sharks are slaughtered annually for their fins, often cut off while they are alive, for sale in Asian countries who consider Shark Fin Soup a delicacy. When writing Space & Ocean Exploration, Danny Quintanas central premise of diverting U.S. Defense Dept. spending to space and ocean exploration also included the U.S. Navy being involved in the solution to this crisis, as explained in the solutions section below.
The disappearance of top marine predators, since it appears nature cant keep up with modern day hunters, will ultimately result in ocean ecosystem collapse as the ocean ecosystem balance provided by these vital creatures vanishes. Consequences from such a fate cant be predicted by even the most prescient because it may involve mass starvation, economic collapse, political chaos and armed conflict. Technology has increased the ability of cruise ship size trawlers to decimate ocean wildlife like never before.
Regional efforts have achieved success in regulating fishing industries, but international waters have no limitations and large and small fishing vessels, many seeking species deemed endangered, are operating throughout the world. Considering the economic value of some species, like Bluefin Tuna and shark fins, this is not a surprising development.
Banning industrial and illegal fishing on the high seas will require aggressive enforcement and Danny Quintana advocates having the U.S. Navy take the lead with other national maritime military organizations to patrol the high seas.
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If we continue with business as usual, I am afraid that the fish stocks will completely collapse. Closing the high seas to fishing is about 60 percent of the oceans. This would benefit all countries. The catch would improve so it would make it that the fish stocks are healthier and therefore larger catch, Dr. Daniel Pauly, Marine Biologist, Former Director Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia.Click Here to Learn More About Dr. Pauly
The Solutions is to Ban Industrial Fishing While Promoting Sustainable Seafood Sources:
The Global High Seas Marine Preserveorganization has two primary goals, as stated above, that branch out into political action, consumer education, grass roots activist efforts and determined campaigns involving major media and Internet exposure.
Danny Quintana, in his book Space & Ocean Exploration, advocated for amending theLaws of the Seas Treaty and establish the Global High Seas Marine Preserve that bans industrial harvesting of marine life in international waters so that large top-of-food-chain predators can return in large numbers. Within the scope of diverting U.S. Defense Dept. spending for ocean research, he suggests that part of the U.S. Navysmission include enforcement, in conjunction with other nations, of the industrial fishing ban in international waters. It must be a group effort or the ban will never hold, the oceans are too big and people will take risks if the payoff is enticing enough.
GHSMPs 50 Sustainable Seafood Cities Campaign: As part of the overall goal of Saving the Oceans, GHSMP is kicking off a campaign targeting the 50 Largest Cities in the United States in an effort to have them designated as Sustainable Seafood Cities by municipal or county legislatures. This would mean that only seafood products from verifiable sustainable sources can be sold at businesses in those jurisdictions.
This campaign targets the demand side of the seafood equation which will in turn help with the supply side campaign of banning industrial fishing in international waters. A traditional political action effort alongside a massive Internet PR Campaign created by E.B. GO Vision Medias Social Media Army and Content Creation Team (SMACCT), under the aegis of the GHSMP Board of Directors, will result in a multi-pronged effort to educate and motivate the public and politicians.
The Situation by Danny Quintana
Fish are the main protein source for a one-third of all humanity, about 2.2 billion people. Several of the foundations the Global High Seas Marine Preserve is asking to get involved with us work with poor countries in developing adequate food resources. The collapse of the fisheries will have a profound effect on the entire planet and create instability in already fragile governments and marine and land ecosystems. Given the problems with unstable governments and chaos in the developing world, everyone in the humanitarian sector has a stake in reducing already vulnerable situations.
Every year over 40-billion pounds of fish and marine mammals are discarded as not sought after bi-catch, truly a fishing industry scandal of immense proportions. This situation is unsustainable and, quite frankly, profoundly immoral. There is no place on Earth not impacted by over fishing. The industrial harvesting of marine life is destroying the wildlife of the oceans while top-of-the-food-chain predators have declined over 90 percent.
A number of studies predict fish as food will run out by 2048, however, this is happening at a much faster rate because the worlds human population increases by about 80 to 100 million annually. Since 1970 half of the worlds wild fish have been slaughtered. In this short 45-year span the worlds population has increased from 4-billion to 7.4 billion, and by 2050 hit an astounding 9-billion hungry people.
If industrial harvesting of marine life continues apace the worlds great fishing grounds will soon be devoid of life and collapse as sustainable ecosystems. Should a worse case scenario unfold then billions of people, many from undeveloped countries or small island nations who depend on the oceans for food and money, will starve to death all over the world.
A man-made genocidal disaster of Biblical proportions will be the result of Mans folly.Governments will fall, economic dislocation will reverberate in every part of the world, violence and war will break out in the fight for resources and the developed nations will hunker down to survive.
All of us have the same data. We are all well aware of what shark-finning and bi-catch as well as commercial fishing is doing to the oceans.The question really is, what are we going to do about it? Without closing off the High Seas to commercial fishing, which is the primary goal of the Global High Seas Marine Preserve, the fisheries globally will not recover.
The fisheries are not on the edge of collapse, they are in the midst of the collapse that has already seen the tipping point long ago, has already reached a state of being akin to a patient in a coma, strapped to a respirator with the doctor shaking his head. Now doctors are often wrong, and if bold action and a new way of thinking is embraced then it just might be possible to snatch survival from the jaws of terminus.
The ocean is not limitless. There is a growing awareness among younger people about the collapse of the fisheries. Young people should be concerned. They know it is their future and they dont want the fish stocks to collapse.
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