Not enough fish?!

Not enough fish

Apparently

There is a big media thing at the moment that says we are eating all the fish and soon there wont be enough. I am not sure how to take this. I would like to know who i saying it and see their numbers. I had friends at uni who studied with the CSIRO and fisheries tas etc. Mostly squid people. I am not talking some weird hybrid people....rather scientists who studied squid. Squid are all kinds of awesome. *pause* That is so not the point. The point is that i had to listen to many talks about fish population, fish management, fish poaching etc.

I find it annoying that they say such things to Australians. I am SURE there are countries out there eating a LOT more fish on a daily basis than us (as a nation). It reminds me of the whole “don’t wear fir/leather” stuff. For two reasons:

1. Aside from the cruelty aspect i am not sure that it isn’t better to have one fir/leather coat and keep it for many years than buy synthetic coats every time fashion changes. I mean environmentally. Kinda. I am not sure on this cause there are plenty of nasty things used in fir/leather manufacture. And i really don’t want to wear dead animals myself. But does that make me just “precious” rather than an anti-cruelty person?

2. When i went to live in South Korea the people there ALL had fir/leather coats. They bought new ones every year. Considering the population difference i couldn’t help thinking that it was a waste of time telling the few people in Aussie land who even wanted to buy fir/leather coats to stop.

I usually wear wool (but now you have to find out the musling status). I do have leather shoes though....so animals still died. Some people don’t even want to wear wool cause the sheep are “kept”. If i knew that the synthetic materials were “clean and green” and could be recycled i wouldn’t worry so much. God i am worrier...cause now i am thinking about how if we all wore mass produced synthetic materials we would put master crafts men out work. And what if some disaster happened and none of the machines worked and we didn’t know how to even knit?

What to believe and when to do something? Sometimes it is hard to figure out logically. Like recycling plastics. I think the old system of glass bottles for milk was better. And you got it delivered to your door! Now you have to go to the shops and pay some one to come and take the rubbish away (and probably put in landfill).

Yeah. I WAS nearly hyperventilating. I must stop.

And to those that asked the “s” key is still stuck-ish. It is really annoying. *sigh* i am going to have to buy a keyboard for the thing now. Life is full of pain.

*grin*