State of Seafood report isn’t as fishy as we feared

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Oct. 20, 2009

There have been a lot of bad headlines out of the oceans these days: from huge islands of floating trash in the Pacific to several wild fish stocks that are on the verge of collapse, it would seem that our oceans the sea life within them are in a desperate situation. And yet the oceans aren’t a lost cause, according to the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s “State of Seafood” report. As farmed seafood overtakes wild-caught seafood as the most consumed, can we strike a balance with ocean conservancy and global fishing?

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Geoff Shester, senior science manager for Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch

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Europe was forced to switch from fresh water fish to salt-water fish around 1000 AD

See discussion on bbc today show Tuesday 26 May 2009 at 0843
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8067000/8067626.stm

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