Will New Aqua Feed Save Ocean Life From Extinction?
If you are a social media animal, you could not have missed the obituary to the Great Barrier Reef, which went viral in October 2016 . Since then, scientists have confirmed that a large part of it is dead from two consecutive world-level coral bleaching events. What was most striking about the extinction event is that it is not caused by any direct human intervention. Instead, one can think of the reef as a sensor to the health of Earth's oceans. The reef is dying not because someone is killing it, but because oceans are chronically and perhaps terminally ill. What ails our oceans? Many things, including the almost intractable problem of global warming, but one practice does stick out: the practice of destructive ocean fishing. Since our inception, we have captured fish and aquatic life mostly from the wild. But with the population explosion and growing demand, the ocean and the rivers cannot satiate our hunger any more. Since the mid-1980s, the share of wild capture in global f...
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