Re: Earth's Carrying Capacity

From: Rand Simberg (newsgroups_at_transterrestrial.com)
Date: 08/16/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:54:02 GMT

Ian St. John wrote:

>>>>Six billion so far and we have yet to even start farming the
>>>>oceans, 70% of the surface of the planet.
>>>
>>>
>>>My impression is we've halfway farmed them to death.
>>
>>We don't farm them, we still hunt them.
>
>
> We do farm them also. This is really the only way to get salmon these days
> as the stocks dwindle due to destruction of their streams and their
> genetics.
> http://www.worldwatch.org/pubs/mag/2003/165/mos/
> "Estimated amount of farmed fish produced in 2002 = 52,700,000 metric
> tons.
> http://www.st.nmfs.gov/st1/fus/current/hilite2002.pdf
> "WORLD FISHERIES (Live weight, 2001)
> Total catch 287.0 billion pounds (130.2 million metric tons)"
>
> so we farm about (52/(52+130)) * 100 = 28.57 percent of the total fish
> production.

Most fish farmed are not in the ocean. I didn't say that we don't farm
fish, just that the ocean fish are hunted, not farmed.

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