It's not just the draughts.<p><a href="https://www.seaspiracy.org/facts" rel="nofollow">https://www.seaspiracy.org/facts</a><p>"Species like thresher, bull and hammerhead sharks have lost up to 80-99% of their populations in the last two decades.<p>Seabird populations have declined by 70% since the 1950's.<p>Studies estimate that up to 40% of all marine life caught is thrown overboard as bycatch.<p>Six out of seven species of sea turtles are either threatened or endangered due to fishing.<p>Over 300,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises are killed as bycatch every year.<p>2.7 trillion fish are caught every year, or up to 5 million caught every minute.<p>Fish populations are in decline to near extinction.
I've been Salmon fishing in California since I can remember. There are few things I love more than being on the water going for Kings as the sun comes up.<p>I'm really bummed we won't have a season, but having more fish in the future is worth the short term cost.
Great news. I live in the area this story was filmed in and have been to that pro shop. I really hope they can weather a lost season and feel bad for the tough times ahead. But I’m happy and proud that our state is willing to take drastic measures to protect the resource. I hope that as we focus on balance and stewardship, populations of salmon, and abalone, to continue to rebound so that the fisheries are healthy and reopened, and we can all enjoy the bounty from this region’s ocean.
Honestly, good. Our commercial fishing operations have really, <i>really</i> depleted stocks and we need more than a couple years to let them build back up.<p>It's one thing if you are out line fishing and throw back the live fish who are caught on your line you don't want. But net fishing and just destroying a huge percentage of whats in your net because it's not what you wanted is absolutely outrageous.
> For years, the salmon fishing industry has been locked in a political struggle in the legislature and the courts over how much water is being allocated to Central Valley farmers. An estimated 80 percent of the state's water goes to agriculture, leaving cities and fisheries to fight over what's left.<p>This is the core issue. With droughts tending to increase rather than decrease, CA probably needs to reevaluate its commitment to supporting its (very large) agribusinesses.
Reminds me of the Alaskan Snow Crab population collapse last year.
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33207372" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33207372</a>
> Last year, 196,000 adult fish were expected to return to the Sacramento River to spawn but only 60,000 showed up.<p>70% decline<p>If your business depends on this fishing season, what do you do? Go bartend?
Here in Sweden we have major issues with hydroelectric power preventing salmons from reaching their spawning areas. Some rivers have limited or event stopped fishing because there just aren't enough that survive the trip past the power stations (that assuming there is a path past them for the fish to use).<p>Is there similar issues in California?
This should not come as a surprise to anyone following all kinds of dystopic salmon gymnastics the govt has been doing to get salmon to our sushi bars.[1][2]<p>[1] <a href="https://www.thisamericanlife.org/773/transcript" rel="nofollow">https://www.thisamericanlife.org/773/transcript</a>
[2] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9qA8c-E_oA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9qA8c-E_oA</a>
I find farm raised salmon to be much <i>much</i> higher quality than the wild caught stuff. I think it's mainly down to the farm raised fish being killed and cleaned and put on ice all within about an hour, compared to up to a week in the gillnet, then another couple days in a slimy grody hold, then another day or two to unload at port, and another day or two to clean before it even gets packaged and shipped.
Humans cannot co-exist with nature, we have failed to leave any part we touched unspoilt, undisturbed, unpoisoned whether be it intentionally or not.<p>Exclusive large critical non-human zones should be immediately established if we are actually serious about conservation.
Is the solution to ban catching wild fish, and instead only allow farming?
That's what we do on land, for the most part, to get meat, isn't it?
everyone who is capable (there are a lot of us!) can we <i>please</i> just eat a <i>little</i> less of this stuff? I’m not asking for much, like a tiny tiny bit less, if you can. Just like one time consciously skip it and cackle “haha i’ll get you next time ocean” if it helps! this is not going well