Archivo etiqueta «Pesca»
By Paul Greenberg, the author of Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 16/12/11):
As the first chill of winter descends on the Northeast and the traditional cold-weather codfish run starts in earnest, fishermen and scientists are again at odds, debating whether the once fantastically abundant North Atlantic codfish populations are finally rebuilding — or hurtling inextricably toward collapse.
But even as regulators parse a recent gloomy assessment of Gulf of Maine codfish populations, the entire question of the commercial future of cod may soon become moot. Cod and other wild-caught whitefish, for … Seguir leyendo
By Karen Sack, director of International Ocean Conservation at Pew Environment Group (THE WASHINGTON POST, 13/09/11):
Deep below the ocean surface lies a cold, hostile environment where the light of day cannot penetrate. The life-forms inhabiting this murky world grow slowly, mature late and take time to reproduce. Many species live 30 years or more, some up to the grand age of 150. Most have not yet been defined by science.
This dark void, which lies beyond any country’s national jurisdiction, is in trouble.
The world’s deep-sea catch is steadily declining, and the high vulnerability of these fish populations … Seguir leyendo
Por Jane Lubchenco, subsecretaria de Comercio para los Océanos y la Atmósfera y Administradora de la Administración Oceánica y Atmosférica Nacional, y Maria Damanaki, comisaria de Asuntos Marítimos y Pesca de la Unión Europea. Traducido del inglés por Carlos Manzano (Project Syndicate, 05/09/11):
La piratería frente a las costas del África oriental ha ocupado los titulares en los últimos años, pero hay otro tipo de piratería a la que se ha prestado demasiado poca atención. La pesca pirata en todo el mundo está costando a los pescadores sus empleos e ingresos y está causando graves daños al medio … Seguir leyendo
By Joel R. Reynolds, senior attorney and director of marine mammal protection for the Natural Resources Defense Council, based in Los Angeles (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 05/01/11):
Weighing up to 80 tons and almost twice the length of a school bus, the massive fin whale — known as the greyhound of the sea for its swimming speed — was the victim of decades of commercial slaughter that killed the whales by the tens of thousands each year. Then, in 1986, with the species on the brink of extinction, the nations of the world agreed to a moratorium on commercial whaling, … Seguir leyendo
By Paul Greenberg, the author of the forthcoming Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 16/12/09):
“What’s the deal with fish oil?”
If you are someone who catches and eats a lot of fish, as I am, you get adept at answering questions about which fish are safe, which are sustainable and which should be avoided altogether. But when this fish oil question arrived in my inbox recently, I was stumped. I knew that concerns about overfishing had prompted many consumers to choose supplements as a guilt-free way of getting their omega-3 fatty … Seguir leyendo
By Brendan Borrell, who writes about science and the environment for Smithsonian, Slate and Scientific American (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 01/12/09):
A desolate island in a frozen sea brings the world’s nations together with a new type of agreement: one giving an international commission the right to govern a landmass through unanimous vote. The year was 1912; the subject was the island of Spitsbergen in the Arctic Ocean. Thereafter, it and the surrounding archipelago were to belong to no nation, its natural resources open to all.
That agreement was no doubt on the minds of the drafters of the … Seguir leyendo
By Charles Clover, a frequent contributor to BBC TV, Sky and BBC Radio news and the co-author, with the Prince of Wales, of Highgrove: Portrait of an Estate (THE TIMES, 19/07/09):
Some of the best political decisions happen for the worst reasons. No clearer case can be found than the announcement by President Nicolas Sarkozy of France that he will support a ban on the international trade in bluefin tuna, a fish as endangered as the giant panda but far more palatable. The bluefin has been over-fished to near extinction within the borders of the European Union under the … Seguir leyendo
By George Monbiot (THE GUARDIAN, 09/09/08):
It is not often that a bureaucrat makes a major scientific discovery. So hats off to Peter Power. The European commission’s spokesperson for trade, writing to the Guardian last week, has invented a new ecological concept: excess fish. Seeking to justify policies that would ensure that European trawlers are allowed to keep fishing in west African waters, Mr Power claims that they will be removing only the region’s “excess stocks”. Well, someone has to do it. Were it not for our brave trawlermen battling nature’s delinquent productivity, the seas would become choked with these … Seguir leyendo
Por Rafael Iturriaga Nieva, consejero del Tribunal Vasco de Cuentas Públicas (EL CORREO DIGITAL, 29/08/08):
A lo largo del mes de agosto han venido sucediéndose las noticias sobre un conflicto pesquero entre Cantabria y el País Vasco. En lo dicho por unos y por otros se echa de menos algún dato referente a la legalidad aplicable. Al fin y al cabo, más allá de las cuestiones técnicas o de los intereses afectados, se trata de una actuación de los poderes públicos.
Es una lástima que circulen conceptos como «veto a los pesqueros cántabros en las aguas interiores vascas» (EL … Seguir leyendo
By George Monbiot (THE GUARDIAN, 08/07/08):
All over the world, protesters are engaged in a heroic battle with reality. They block roads, picket fuel depots, throw missiles and turn over cars in an effort to hold it at bay. The oil is running out and governments, they insist, must do something about it. When they’ve sorted it out, what about the fact that the days are getting shorter? What do we pay our taxes for?
The latest people to join these surreal protests are the world’s fishermen. They are on strike in Italy, Spain, Portugal, France and Japan, and demonstrating … Seguir leyendo
By Paul Watson. Captain Paul Watson is founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (THE GUARDIAN, 23/01/08):
Shiver me timbers, boys and girls, we is awash in a sea of pirates down here in the Southern Ocean and it’s time for a parley to do a little ‘splaining on the subject. This ocean now rivals the 17th century Caribbean for reported acts of piracy. The only thing lacking is the Sea Shepherd member Orlando Bloom.Japanese whalers are accusing the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and Greenpeace crew members of being pirates. Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace are accusing the whalers of … Seguir leyendo
By Peter Singer, a professor of bioethics at Princeton University and the author of Animal Liberation and, with Jim Mason, The Ethics of What We Eat (THE GUARDIAN, 19/01/08):
The change in public opinion about whaling has been dramatic. Thirty years ago Australian vessels would hunt sperm whales with the government’s blessing – but just two days ago an Australian customs ship, in Antarctic waters to video Japanese whaling activities, played a key role in winning the freedom of two anti-whaling activists. The hostage crisis began when they boarded a Japanese harpoon boat on Tuesday. Because Paul Watson, the … Seguir leyendo
By Lawrence Downes (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 02/12/07):
The fish lay on a table. The crowd at the barriers stood six deep. They held up cellphones and cameras to take its picture.
The fish had been bled, cleaned and beheaded. Alive, it had weighed about 500 pounds. What remained was still huge: a cylinder tapered at both ends; a cold, fat cigar; a suspended teardrop. It shone like polished steel. It was an awesome sight, one of the most prized fish in the ocean: a bluefin tuna.
Two days earlier it had been swimming off Spain. Now it was in … Seguir leyendo
By George Monbiot (THE GUARDIAN, 03/04/07):
If these animals lived on land there would be a global outcry. But the great beasts roaming the savannahs of the open seas summon no such support. Big sharks, giant tuna, marlin and swordfish should have the conservation status of the giant panda or the snow leopard. Yet still we believe it is acceptable for fishmongers to sell them and celebrity chefs to teach us how to cook them.A study in this week’s edition of Science reveals the disastrous collapse of the ocean’s megafauna. The great sharks are now wobbling on the edge of … Seguir leyendo
Por Xabier Ezeizabarrena, abogado y doctro en Derecho (EL CORREO DIGITAL, 20/07/06):
Mientras la flota cantábrica de bajura sigue sumida en una profunda crisis estructural, la Política Pesquera de la UE continúa sin diferenciar debidamente las problemáticas pesqueras de las distintas flotas en el contexto comunitario, optando hasta la fecha por pautas de reflexión incompletas que desdibujan cualquier aproximación de contenido social real al fenómeno pesquero en clave de sostenibilidad. Buen ejemplo de ello es el caso de la escasez de capturas de anchoa junto a la necesidad de establecer un cierre de la pesca de esta especie, los … Seguir leyendo