You know something’s bad when you hear the Bush Administration admit that it’s bad: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration came out with its annual report on the status of U.S. fisheries yesterday, and reported that overall, no progress has been made in reducing overfishing or in rebuilding depleted stocks of fish over the last year. There were some improvements in the North Pacific, but the situation in Hawaii grew worse, and the overfishing situation in other areas remained unchanged.
Mark Powell, director of Fish Conservation at the Ocean Conservancy, explains that, “fishery managers are continuing to ignore the law and allow unsustainable fishing for too many of our economically and ecologically important fish.” The Ocean Conservancy has been working for three decades to protect ocean habitats from destruction from excessive human exploitation. Now that the dwindling of fish populations in the ocean is exerting a negative drag on human economies, and ocean ecosystems are showing signs of approaching the edge of collapse, the work of the Ocean Conservancy has never been more important. Please, visit the Ocean Conservancy web site and consider giving the organization your support.
