You know, even if it weren't for the bioaccumulation of toxins, I still wouldn't eat fish because of the impact of factory fishing on fish stocks and the environment. I don't really have a problem with subsistence fishing, but the mass quantity at which the fish most people eat is just not sustainable (IMO).
I really think much depends upon the stock being fished and how it's being fished. Never should a case like that of the Atlantic cod be permitted to happen, but it doesn't have to. Under ordinary circumstances, most populations can sustain some level of harvest. I take no issue with them doing so, but the regulations really should reflect a realistically sustainable yield. Where there are fisheries not being managed well and subject to non-sustainable harvests comfortably outside of rational regulation (Chilean sea bass, e.g.), I will not indulge.
However, I admit, it is extremely rare for me to ever buy fish. I catch my own, and not only do I do so within the letter of the law, but the moral standards to which I hold myself when harvesting wild fish is more stringent than the regulations. I will not harvest from easily exploited, habitat-limited lotic populations, for example, even where it is permitted.
What I perceive to be the real issue regarding the sustainability of any of our renewable resources unfortunately is one
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However, I admit, it is extremely rare for me to ever buy fish. I catch my own, and not only do I do so within the letter of the law, but the moral standards to which I hold myself when harvesting wild fish is more stringent than the regulations. I will not harvest from easily exploited, habitat-limited lotic populations, for example, even where it is permitted.
What I perceive to be the real issue regarding the sustainability of any of our renewable resources unfortunately is one ( ... )
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Amen, brother.
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