Eat fish twice a week
The Sea Fish Industry Authority (Seafish) is launching a new theme for Seafood Week 2006 to encourage people to eat seafood ‘Twice a Week’.
Meanwhile, results from meaningless fish oil “trials” on GCSE students in Durham are being touted about in the press as a miraculous cure for underachieving children.
According to Greenpeace “More and more people are competing for less and less fish and exacerbating the existing oceans crisis, as today’s industrialised fishing practices exceed nature’s ability to replenish the ocean’s fish stocks’.
According to the United Nations, 75 % of the world’s fisheries are “fully exploited’ or ‘over exploited’ or significantly depleted’. Some species have already been fished to commercial extinction. More are on the verge of extinction.Regulation of fishing vessels is universally inadequate.”
With no sense of irony whatsoever, fish is about to be marketed as “gone in a flash” by Seafish.
In short, despite what you read in the press, there is no evidence to support the idea that fish is particularity good for you, no evedence to suggest it has any positive effect on your brain or schooling. Meanwhile we are pillaging the sea, driving species like the cod into extinction and European money is going into suggesting that we eat more of the stuff; it makes no sense.
The management of the industry as a whole is a catastrophe. Locally, you just have to look into the EU Common Fisheries Policy and it\’s growing encroachment into the African fishing industry together with a group of scientists, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). The only commercial fisheries which have successful managed their stocks are those which have ignored ICES advice.
Tara
8 Oct 07 at 8:02 pm